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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Chrysobothrini » Chrysobothris » Chrysobothris pubilineata

Species Chrysobothris pubilineata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Chrysobothris pubilineata Vogt - Chrysobothris pubilineata

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 Buprestinae

Tribe Chrysobothrini

Genus Chrysobothris

Species pubilineata (Chrysobothris pubilineata)

Explanation of Names

Chrysobothris pubilineata Vogt 1949(a)

Size

7 mm (BG data)

Identification

PARATYPE - Starr Co., TX

Range

NM (Hidalgo Co.), TX (Starr Co.) (1)(2)

TX: TL: Starr Co., 6.5 mi SE Rio Grande City, Hwy. to Mission.

NM: Hidalgo Co., 15 mi N Rodeo, 15-VI-65, on Mimosa sp. (1)

Season

TX: April (8), NM: June (1) (Vogt 1949b),(1)

Food

Adults in s. TX on Blackbrush Acacia - Vachellia (=Acacia) rigidula, Range

"Three specimens collected on blackbrush. About five others missed" in Starr County, Texas. (Vogt 1949b)

adult on Mimosa sp. in New Mexico. (1)

Remarks

recap:

described from 3 spmns coll'ed in 1947 in Starr Co., Texas. (Vogt 1949a)

one additional spmn coll'ed in 1965 in Hidalgo Co., New Mexico. (1)

Print References

Nelson, G.H., D.S. Verity & R.L. Westcott. 1981. Additional notes on the biology and distribution of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of North America. Coleopterists Bulletin 35(2): 129-151. (1)

Vogt, G.B. 1949a. Five new species of Buprestidae from southern Texas (Coleoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42(1): 48-54.

Vogt, G.B. 1949b. A biologically annotated list of the Buprestidae of the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42(2): 191-202.

Internet References

Type Info - Smithsonian

Works Cited

1.	Additional notes on the biology and distribution of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of North America. Nelson, G.H., D.S. Verity & R.L. Westcott. 1981. Coleopterists Bulletin 35(2): 129-151.

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 Mike Quinn on 25 November, 2009 - 1:15pm
Last updated 6 March, 2019 - 9:05am

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