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Tribe Dicercini

Buprestid - ? - Dicerca Prasinalia cuneata Dicerca tenebrosa? - Dicerca lugubris Buprestid  - Dicerca Metallic Borer - Dicerca divaricata First CA post of Gyascutus caelatus? - Gyascutus fulgidus Dicerca - Dicerca obscura Chrysochroinae subfamily - Dicerca tenebrica
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 Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Explanation of Names
Dicercini Gistel 1848
Numbers
46 spp. in 6 genera in our area(1); ca. 770 spp. in 32 genera worldwide (about ⅔ of spp. in Polybothris & Lampetis)(2)
Range
worldwide except Australasia(2); across NA(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