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Tribe Haplostethini

Metallic wood-boring beetle - Mastogenius subcyaneus

Mastogenius castlei Champlain & Knull - Mastogenius castlei

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Mastogenius crenulatus

Mastogenius robustus Schaeffer - Mastogenius robustus

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 Haplostethini

Explanation of Names

Haplostethini LeConte 1861

Numbers

7 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1); 115 spp. in 10 genera worldwide(2)

Range

worldwide(2); in our area, CT to FL west to IN, TX, AZ(1)

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.	Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea

Contributed by v belov on 17 May, 2010 - 4:07am
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 1:50pm

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