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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae)

Family Buprestidae - Metallic Wood-boring Beetles

Agrilinae · Buprestinae · Chrysochroinae · Polycestinae · Unidentified Larvae & Larval Galleries

Subfamily Agrilinae
leaf miner - Taphrocerus gracilis signs of EAB attack - Agrilus planipennis Buprestidae, ventral - Agrilus Agrilus pseudofallax? - Agrilus fallax Agrilus - Agrilus olentangyi Agrilus - EAB? - Agrilus cyanescens another one this year… love these guys - Agrilus benjamini * - Agrilus quadriguttatus

Subfamily Buprestinae
Bups from Sabino - Chrysobothris crandalli - male Xenomelanophila miranda (LeConte) - Xenomelanophila miranda Buprestidae ? - Chrysobothris shawnee Chrysobothris acaciae Knull - Chrysobothris acaciae Metallic Wood Boring Beetles Subgenus Melanthaxia - Anthaxia - male - female Anthaxia Unidentified Beetle - Phaenops beetle - Chrysobothris

Subfamily Chrysochroinae
Beetle - Chalcophora angulicollis Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Dicerca obscura Gyascutus sp.? - Gyascutus carolinensis Dicerca? - Dicerca punctulata Dicerca sp. - Dicerca spreta Delronde Lake Resort Woodborer - Dicerca Dicerca lurida - female Hippomelas planicauda - male

Subfamily Polycestinae
Acmaeodera ligulata - Acmaeodera ligulata Chrysophana placida? - Chrysophana placida amabilis? - Acmaeodera amabilis Acmaeodera maculifera? - Acmaeodera maculifera Acmaeodera perlanosa Acmaeodera sp. - Anambodera Which beetle is this? View 2 - Acmaeodera mixta Acmaeodera texana LeConte - Acmaeodera texana

Unidentified Larvae & Larval Galleries
Aspen buprestid Bupestrid Wood-boring Beetle gallery larva beetle larvae borer damage Buprestid larva? Buprestid larva? Fruit tree borer


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