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Species Acmaeodera scalaris


Field Guide to the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Northeastern North America.
By Paiero et al.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. 411 pp., 2012
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This 411 page field guide (6×9″) covers the 164 jewel beetle species known from northeastern North America, and also includes 2 identification keys to the 23 genera in the region: one a technical key adapted from previously published works, and the other a “field key”, designed for use with a hand lens or digital camera and which uses characters that are more easily observed.

Each species in the guide is fully illustrated with high magnification colour photos of the dorsal & ventral habitus, head and male genitalia (plus additional colour morphs or variations where possible),

Chapter 41. Buprestidae Leach 1815. (In: American Beetles, Vol 2)
By Bellamy & Nelson.
CRC Press, Boca Raton. Pp. 98-112., 2002
Bellamy, C.L. & G.H. Nelson. 2002. Chapter 41. Buprestidae Leach 1815. Pp. 98-112. In: R.H. Arnett, Jr., et al. (Eds.). American Beetles, Volume 2, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Buprestidae
By Webster R.P., Demerchant I.
Zookeys 179: 55-65, 2012

The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Missouri
By MacRae T.C.
Insecta Mundi 5(2): 101-126, 1991

The metallic wood-boring beetles of Canada and Alaska: Coleoptera: Buprestidae (The Insects and arachnids of Canada)
By Donald E. Bright
Biosystematics Research Centre, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, 1987

Three new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the United States and Mexico.
By Nelson, G. H. and R. L. Westcott
The Coleopterists Bulletin 49(1): 77–87, 1995
Includes description of Acmaeodera quadrivittatoides, detailed information on it and A. quadrivittata.

Miscellaneous notes on Buprestidae and Schizopodidae occurring in the United States and Canada...
By Nelson G.H., Westcott R.L., MacRae T.C.
The Coleopterists Bulletin 50: 183–191, 1996
Full title: Miscellaneous notes on Buprestidae and Schizopodidae occurring in the United States and Canada, including descriptions of previously unknown sexes of six Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera)

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An illustrated summary of the higher classification of the superfamily Buprestoidea (Coleoptera)
By C.L. Bellamy
Folia Heyrovskyana Supplement 10: 197 pp.; 44 color plates with 454 photographs, 2003
Data from superfamily to subgenus; all synonyms; type genera for family-group names; type species for genus-group names; species number assessment and geographical distribution for each genus. Covers two families, 7 subfamilies, 42 tribes, 87 subtribes, 491 genera and 172 non-nominate subgenera.