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Species Lampetis cupreopunctata

Lampetis cupreopunctata (Schaeffer) - Lampetis cupreopunctata

Metallic Woodborer--Buprestidae species? - Lampetis cupreopunctata

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 Dicercini

Subtribe Dicercina

Genus Lampetis

Species cupreopunctata (Lampetis cupreopunctata)

Other Common Names

Tamaulipan Copper-spotted Buprestid

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lampetis cupreopunctata (Schaeffer)

Orig. Comb: Psiloptera cupreopunctata Schaeffer 1905

Explanation of Names

cupreopunctata (L). 'copper spotted' (1)

Numbers

3 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Size

16.5-22 mm (Schaeffer 1905)

Range

southmost TX (Cameron & Hidalgo Counties) / ne. Mex. - Map (3)(4)

Season

Sept-Jan (Vogt, 1949)(BG data)

Food

Adults on Acacia, Prosopis (2)

Life Cycle

"During October and November very common on mesquite, huisache and occasionally on coma, especially where brush is being cleared. On mesquite this species has the habit of chewing the bark at the bases of leaf petioles in such a manner as to cut off the leaves. Heavily attached trees maybe almost completely defoliated." (Vogt, 1949)

Remarks

TYPE: "Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Texas, August, 1904, one by sweeping the low herbage, the other found on an old mesquite trunk, both specimens are of one sex and probably males." (Schaeffer 1905)

Note that while Schaeffer (1905) only found two, Vogt (1949) found them to be "very common ... especially where brush is being cleared." Post WWII through the 1950s was the death knell for most of the last of the brush along the Rio Grande...

Print References

Corona, A. Ma. 2005. Revision of the subgenus Lampetis (Spinthoptera) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of North and Central American, and the West Indies. European Journal of Entomology 102: 737-776.

Nelson, G.H. 1986. A review of the genus Psiloptera subgenus Lampetis Solier in the United States (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 40(3): 272-284.

Schaeffer, C. 1905. Additions to the Coleoptera of the United States with notes on some known species. Science Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1(6): 123-140. (Full Text)

Vogt, G.B. 1949. A biologically annotated list of the Buprestidae of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42: 191-202.

Internet References

Type Info - Smithsonian

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing 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.

3.	A review of the genus Psiloptera subgenus Lampetis Solier in the United States (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Nelson G.H. 1986. Col. Bull. 40: 272-284.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 23 September, 2009 - 9:01pm
Last updated 24 November, 2024 - 1:10pm

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