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Species Chalcophora liberta - Northeastern Sculptured Pine Borer

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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 Chrysochroini
Genus Chalcophora
Species liberta (Northeastern Sculptured Pine Borer)
Other Common Names
Smaller Flat-headed Pine Borer
Explanation of Names
Chalcophora liberta (Germar 1824)
Size
15‒25 mm (the smallest North American Chalcophora)(1)
Identification
from brilliant metallic coppery orange to dull black; extremely variable in size, dorsal sculpturing, and density of ventral setae; readily distinguished by truncate or rounded elytral apices, small size, and usually bright metallic, orange-green color(1)
Range
QC‒MB to WV‒AL‒TX(1)
Food
Adults feed on young buds of pines; larval hosts: Pinus resinosa, P. strobus(2)
Works Cited
1.Reevaluation of Chalcophora angulicollis (LeConte) and Chalcophora virginiensis (Drury) with a review and key...
Maier C.A., Ivie M.A. 2013. Col. Bull. 67: 457‒469.
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 - 11:56am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Joshua P. Basham, v belov
Last updated 5 September, 2023 - 6:40pm

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