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Tribe Chrysochroini

Pine beetle? - Chalcophora virginiensis Chalcophora angulicollis large beetle - Chalcophora angulicollis dicerca or chrysobothris or? - Chalcophora virginiensis Chalcophora - Chalcophora virginiensis Sculptured Pine Borer (Chalcophora virginiensis)? - Chalcophora virginiensis Sculptured Pine Borer--Chalcophora virginiensis? - Chalcophora virginiensis Big guy - Chalcophora virginiensis
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.
Contributed by v belov on 17 May, 2010 - 4:10am
Last updated 13 July, 2023 - 9:06am

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