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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Tracheini » Pachyschelus » Pachyschelus laevigatus

Species Pachyschelus laevigatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Works Cited
Metallic Wood-boring Beetles - Pachyschelus laevigatus Beetle - Pachyschelus laevigatus Buprestid - Pachyschelus laevigatus - female Buprestid - Pachyschelus laevigatus - female Pachyschelus larva - Pachyschelus laevigatus Leaf mine - Pachyschelus laevigatus Beetle - Pachyschelus laevigatus - female Buprestidae, dorsal - Pachyschelus laevigatus
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 Tracheini
Genus Pachyschelus
Species laevigatus (Pachyschelus laevigatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pachyschelus laevigatus (Say)
Orig. Comb: Trachys laevigatus Say 1839
P. confusus Wellso, Manley & Jackman 1976 may turn out to be synonymous (1)
Identification
All black (a trait shared with P. confusus)
Range
e NA (TX-FL-QC-SD) (2),(BG data)
Season
May-Aug (BG data)
Food
Larvae in Desmodium spp. and Lespedeza sp. (Fabaceae) (2)
Life Cycle
Larva; leaf mine with larva; adult
See Also
Pachyschelus confusus Wellso, Manley & Jackman 1976
- Range: MN-MI / Ont.
Works Cited
1.A reconsideration of Pachyschelus schwarzi Kerremans and a review of American Pachyschelus North of Mexico (Col.: Buprestidae)
Hespenheide H.A. 2003. Col. Bull. 57: 459-468.
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 Phillip Harpootlian on 9 August, 2005 - 8:08am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, marcie oconnor, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 16 March, 2020 - 5:17pm

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