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Tribe Acmaeoderini

Yellow-marked Buprestid - Acmaeodera decipiens Acmaeodera amplicollis Acmaeodera pulchella (Herbst) - Acmaeodera pulchella Which Acmaeodera? just A. rubronotata? - Acmaeodera rubronotata Acmaeodera sp. - Acmaeodera pulchella Hyper1 - Acmaeodera pulchella Small beetle - Acmaeodera scalaris Acmaeodera alicia
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)
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
3.A synopsis of the adult and larval plant associations for New World Acmaeoderini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Contributed by v belov on 17 May, 2010 - 4:07am
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 1:59pm

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