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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Dicercina » Dicerca » Flatheaded Poplar Borer (Dicerca tenebrica)

Species Dicerca tenebrica - Flatheaded Poplar Borer

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited
Brassy Metallic Wood Borer Beetle - Dicerca tenebrica Buprestid- Dicerca sp. - Dicerca tenebrica Unknown Buprestid at Exmoor - Dicerca tenebrica Unknown Buprestid at Exmoor - Dicerca tenebrica Metallic Beetle - Dicerca tenebrica what is this ancient-armadillo-thingy? - Dicerca tenebrica Dicerca - Dicerca tenebrica Dicerca sp.? - Dicerca tenebrica
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 Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Subtribe Dicercina
Genus Dicerca
Species tenebrica (Flatheaded Poplar Borer)
Other Common Names
Poplar Dicerca(1)
Explanation of Names
Dicerca tenebrica (Kirby 1837)
Size
14.5-26.0 mm(1)
Range
throughout Canada and most of the US (south to GA-CA)(2)(1)
Season
adults present Mar-Nov(1)
Food
Larvae in bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata), adults on other Populus spp.(2)
Works Cited
1.Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs
Solomon, J.D. 1995. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook. 735 pp.
2.A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico.
Nelson et al. 2008. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4. 274 pp.
Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 18 June, 2005 - 6:37am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 6 April, 2012 - 5:14am

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