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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Paratyndaris

Genus Paratyndaris

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Paratyndaris prosopis Skinner - Paratyndaris prosopis Paratyndaris (Paratyndaris) acaciae Knull - Paratyndaris acaciae Hairy Buprestid - Paratyndaris prosopis Acmaeodera sp - Paratyndaris chamaeleonis Paratyndaris olneyae Paratyndaris tucsoni large series - Paratyndaris prosopis - male - female Paratyndaris chamaeleonis
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
Genus Paratyndaris
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in Nelson & Bellamy (2004)(1)
Explanation of Names
Paratyndaris Fisher 1919
Numbers
15 spp. in 3 subgenera in our area(2); 36 spp. total(3)
spp. not yet in the guide (to facilitate further placement):
subg. Paratyndaris (anomalis, grassmani, quadrinotata)
subg. Waltersia (barberi)
Range
Neotropics north to so. US(3); in our area, FL, TX-CA(2)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe neotropical Tyndarini Cobos 1955, that contains 12 genera (~60 spp.)(3)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Paratyndaris Fisher, 1919 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae)
Nelson G.H., Bellamy C.L. 2004. Zootaxa 683: 1-80.
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
3.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 10 June, 2009 - 12:17am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, Joel DuBois
Last updated 1 August, 2021 - 10:54pm

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