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Subgenus Squamodera

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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 Polycestinae
Tribe Acmaeoderini
Subtribe Acmaeoderina
Genus Acmaeodera
No Taxon Subgenus Squamodera
Explanation of Names
Squamodera Nelson 1996. Sunk to subgenus of Acmaeodera by Davidson (2003).
Numbers
4 species, all found in the US (1).
Identification
Separated from other Nearctic Acmaeodera by the indistinct lateral margin of the pronotum, the ventral surface clothed in a dense tomentum of white scales, and the shortened ovipositor.
Print References
Nelson, G. H. 1996. A new genus, Squamodera Nelson, for the vanduzeei group of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from Western North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 50(2): 167-175.

Davidson, J. M. 2003. Mexican Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829: A new species and checklist, with miscellaneous taxonomic and biological notes on other North American Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 201: 1-18.
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 Hartmut Wisch on 22 May, 2009 - 12:32am
Additional contributions by v belov, Joel DuBois
Last updated 7 July, 2024 - 6:57pm

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