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Species Agrilus audax

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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 Agrilinae
Tribe Agrilini
Genus Agrilus
Species audax (Agrilus audax)
Explanation of Names
Agrilus audax Horn 1891
audac (L). 'daring' (1)
Identification

Det. Stan G. Wellso
Range
sc US (IL-MO-TX-AZ) - Map (2)(3), AZ record dubious (Rick Westcott, 2014 pers. comm. to MAQ)
Food
Larvae in slippery elm - Ulmus rubra (=fulva) (Ulmaceae)(2)
Remarks
Type Locality: Texas
See Also
A. benjamini (IL-KS-TX) | A. concinnus (TX-FL-MD-MO) | A. dozieri (GA-FL) | A. flohri (AZ) | A. vittaticollis (most of NA)
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1891. The species of Agrilus of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 18: 277-366.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)