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Tribe Chrysochroini

Chalcophora virginiensis Drury - Chalcophora virginiensis - female 1982 Sculptured Pine Borer - Chalcophora virginiensis 2 inch Beetle - Chalcophora angulicollis I think this is a metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. Can anyone take this beetle to genus and species? - Chalcophora virginiensis Metallic Wood Borer Beetle - Dicerca? - Texania campestris Night Sky Beetle - Chalcophora virginiensis Chalcophora... - Chalcophora angulicollis Chalcophora liberta
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 Chrysochroini
Explanation of Names
Chrysochroini Laporte 1835
Numbers
16 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1); ca. 630 spp. in 48 genera worldwide(2)
Identification
see (3)
Range
worldwide (barely represented in the Neotropics)(2); in our area, across the continent(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
3.A revision of the genera Nanularia and Ampheremus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
Bellamy C.L. 1987. LA County Mus. Nat. Hist. Contrib. Sci. 387:1-20.