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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae)

Family Buprestidae - Metallic Wood-boring Beetles

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

Subfamily Agrilinae
Beetle - Agrilus ruficollis Agrilus dollii Schaeffer - Agrilus dollii Agrilus cavifrons Waterhouse - Agrilus cavifrons St. Andrews Leaf miner on Wisteria frutescens SA27 2015 3 - Pachyschelus nicolayi Agrilus quercus Schaeffer - Agrilus quercus - male Agrilus juglandis Leigh farm park leaf miner on Ulmus alata D4184 2022 2 - Brachys Agrilus something - Agrilus

Subfamily Buprestinae
Metalic Woodboring Beetle - Anthaxia quercata - male Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta Buprestis striata Buprestid Beetle - Spectralia gracilipes Chrysobothris pubilineata Vogt - Chrysobothris pubilineata Actenodes acornis Thinking this is Buprestis rufipes - Buprestis rufipes Coleoptera - Chrysobothris exesa

Subfamily Chrysochroinae
metallic wood borer - Dicerca pugionata Drop Down Visitor? - Chalcophora virginiensis Chalcophora angulicollis Perhaps a metallic woodboring beetle? - Dicerca lurida Beetleb - Dicerca Chalcophora sp? - Chalcophora angulicollis Gyascutus planicosta ssp. cribriceps - Gyascutus planicosta Hardwood Borer Beetle - Dicerca

Subfamily Polycestinae
Buprestid - Acmaeodera decipiens Acmaeodera species - Acmaeodera solitaria Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Acmaeodera tubulus Acmaeodera sp? - Acmaeodera rubronotata Very Small Acmaeodera - Acmaeodera acanthicola Acmaeodera? - Acmaeodera tubulus Acmaeoreda labytinthica? - Acmaeodera labyrinthica Acmaeodera? - Acmaeoderopsis paravaripilis

Unidentified Larvae & Larval Galleries
Worm - Flat Head Aspen buprestid Bupestrid Wood-boring Beetle gallery Metallic Wood Borer Larvae Boring Beetle Damage Flathead Buprestid larva? Buprestid larva?


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