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

Genus Acmaeodera

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Buprestid - Acmaeodera decipiens Acmaeodera mixta LeConte - Acmaeodera mixta Acmaeodera - Acmaeodera mixta Acmaeodera sp - Acmaeodera convicta Acmaeodera? - Acmaeodera decipiens Yellow Blotch Beetle? - Acmaeodera pulchella Acmaeodera - Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera sp. ? - Acmaeodera amplicollis
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
Other Common Names
Yellow-marked Buprestids, Spotted Flower Buprestids
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acmaeodera Eschscholtz 1829
Numbers
close to 150 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area(1)(2), >500 worldwide(3)
Identification
old key to spp. in (4) • key to eastern spp. in (2)
Range
worldwide except Australasia(3); widespread in NA, by far more diverse in the southwest(1)
Habitat
usually seen on flowers(1)
Food
host plant info here(5)
Remarks
Some are pests of timber
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Acmaeodera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): A new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829 from the southwestern United States...
Hansen J.A. 2023. Insecta Mundi 1012: 1–52.
3.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
4.Synopsis of the species of Acmaeodera of America North of Mexico.
Fall, H.C. 1899. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7(1): 1-37.
5.Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)
Contributed by Cotinis on 23 March, 2004 - 9:40am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov, Arturo Santos, Joel DuBois
Last updated 7 July, 2024 - 2:57pm

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