Species Agrilus limpiae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited

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 Agrilinae

Tribe Agrilini

Genus Agrilus

Species limpiae (Agrilus limpiae)

Explanation of Names

Agrilus limpiae Knull 1941

Probably a reference to Limpia Creek in the Davis Mountains

Identification

can be separated from the common A. obsoletoguttatus by more prominent pubescent markings and lateral lobes of the aedeagus

Range

KS‒TX(1)

Food

Larval host: Western Soapberry (Sapindus saponaria, Sapindaceae)(1)

Print References

Knull J.N. (1941) A new Texas Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Entomological News 52: 98‒100.

Knull J.N. (1944) New Coleoptera with notes (Buprestidae and Cerambycidae). Ohio J. Sci. 44: 90‒93.

Works Cited

1.	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 Joshua P. Basham on 19 August, 2008 - 3:26pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, jahansen, v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2024 - 7:05pm

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