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Tribe Buprestini

Gold Bug - Buprestis aurulenta Buprestis maculativentris Skarab Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta A thing of beauty.. - Trachykele blondeli Buprestis langii? - Buprestis langii Buprestis maculativentris (?) - Buprestis maculativentris Painted Beetle - Buprestis laeviventris Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Buprestis apricans
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 Buprestinae
Tribe Buprestini
Numbers
34 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1); 116 spp. in 9 genera worldwide, Buprestis representing ca. 70% of all spp.(2)
Range
worldwide except Australasia(2) and throughout 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