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Species Acmaeodera prorsa

Representative Images

Buprestid? On Salvia blossoms - Acmaeodera prorsa Acmaeodera sp 1 - Acmaeodera prorsa Acmaeodera prorsa ? - Acmaeodera prorsa Acmaeodera prorsa ? - Acmaeodera prorsa Dark Acmaeodera - Acmaeodera prorsa Black Beetle white spots on Chamise - Acmaeodera prorsa Acmaeodera prorsa? - Acmaeodera prorsa Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle - Acmaeodera prorsa

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 prorsa (Acmaeodera prorsa)

Explanation of Names

Acmaeodera prorsa Fall 1899

Food

adults recorded on Ceanothus cuneatus, Quercus kellogii, Q. dumosa, Rosa californica, Salvia spp., Turricula parrryi(1)

Works Cited

1.A synopsis of the adult and larval plant associations for New World Acmaeoderini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 9 June, 2008 - 7:25am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 27 February, 2013 - 3:06pm

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