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Species Brachys ovatus

Beetle: 2012.04.16.19535 - Brachys ovatus

metallic wood-boring beetle - Brachys ovatus

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

Subtribe Brachyina

Genus Brachys

Species ovatus (Brachys ovatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Brachys ovatus (Weber)

Orig. Comb: Buprestis ovatus Weber, 1801

Size

5-7 mm

Identification

Larger than some other commonly found members of this genus (aerosus, aeruginosus). Last abdominal sternite emarginate and fimbriate in female, rounded and not pubescent in male.(1) Dorsally, the white-margined band of bronze pubescence before the apex of the elytra and longitudinal rows of bronze setae in the basal half of the elytra are usually sufficient for distinguishing this species in Missouri. (MacRae 2009)

Range

e NA to Rockies (AZ-FL-QC-MT) / Mex. (2)

Habitat

Deciduous forests; associated with oaks

Food

larvae mine in oak leaves (2)

Works Cited

1.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.

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 - 11:10am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 June, 2016 - 1:18pm

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