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Subgenus Melanthaxia

Reality Check: Buprestid, right? - Anthaxia Metallic wood boring beetles? mating 2 - Anthaxia - male - female Metallic green buprestid? - Anthaxia prasina Buprestids - Anthaxia - male - female Anthaxia - possibly subgenus Melanthaxia?? - Anthaxia beetle 6mm - Anthaxia Melanthaxia - Anthaxia Subgenus Melanthaxia? - Anthaxia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles)
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Buprestinae
Tribe Anthaxiini
Genus Anthaxia
No Taxon Subgenus Melanthaxia
Explanation of Names
Melanthaxia Richter 1944