Species Acmaeodera horni

Acmaeodera horni Fall - Acmaeodera horni - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Buprestoidea

Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)

Subfamily Polycestinae

Tribe Acmaeoderini

Subtribe Acmaeoderina

Genus Acmaeodera

Species horni (Acmaeodera horni)

Explanation of Names

Acmaeodera horni Fall, 1899

Size

11 mm (Type)

Range

se. AZ (Westcott & Bellamy, 2004)(BG data)

Remarks

This species has been very rarely collected. It was known only from the type until a specimen was found in the University of Arizona Insect Collection from the Santa Catalina Mountains. Rick Westcott and Chuck Bellamy went to the locality of that specimen and collected 7 more, and wrote a note about he species (Westcott & Bellamy, 2004). The locality where they collected was subsequently burned in a wildfire. As far as I am aware, the species hasn't been collected again until now.

Collected by Norm Woodley, on flower of Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa, Rosaceae)

Print References

Fall, H.C. 1899. Synopsis of the species of Acmaeodera of America North of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7(1): 1-37. (Full Text)(1)

Westcott, R.L. & C.L. Bellamy. 2004. The rediscovery of Acmaeodera horni Fall (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 79(3/4): 250-251.

Works Cited

1.	Synopsis of the species of Acmaeodera of America North of Mexico. Fall, H.C. 1899. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7(1): 1-37.

Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 2 June, 2020 - 1:42pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Joel DuBois
Last updated 9 May, 2023 - 3:45pm

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