Species Agrilus cyanescens

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Agrilus cyanescens - female

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Agrilus cyanescens

iridescent blue flying bug - Agrilus cyanescens

Buprestidae Agrilus cyanescens - Metallic Wood-boring Beetles - Agrilus cyanescens

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 cyanescens (Agrilus cyanescens)

Explanation of Names

Agrilus cyanescens Ratzeburg 1837

Range

native to the Palaearctic (W. Europe to E. Asia), adventive in NA and now widespread in the northeast (ME-ON-UT south to VA-IL)(1)

Season

May-July (BG data)

Food

Reliable host plant records include Lonicera, Symphoricarpos, Rhamnus (other published host plants are dubious)(1)

Remarks

introduced ca. 1920(1)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the Agrilus cyanescens species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)... E. Jendek, V. Grebennikov. 2009. Zootaxa 2139: 43–60.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 July, 2005 - 6:25am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 August, 2018 - 2:08pm

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