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Tribe Acmaeoderini

Acmaeodera robusta - Acmaeodera tuta Beetle 402! 5395-5400-5402 - Acmaeodera pulchella Acmaeodera pubiventris yumae - Acmaeodera pubiventris Beetle - Acmaeodera tubulus Acmaeodera sp. - Acmaeodera Acmaeodera? - Acmaeodera acuta Metallic Woodboring beetle, Acmaeodera tubulus? - Acmaeodera tubulus Acmaeodera decipiens? - Acmaeodera decipiens
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 Acmaeoderini
Explanation of Names
Acmaeoderini Kerremans 1893
Numbers
ca. 180 spp. in 4 genera in our area (~150 spp. are in Acmaeodera)(1); >700 spp. in 15 genera worldwide (514 Acmaeodera, 124 Acmaeoderella)(2)
Range
worldwide(2); in our area, across the continent but conspicuously more diverse in the southwest(1)
Food
for host associations, see(3)