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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Anthaxiini

Tribe Anthaxiini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Anthaxia inornata Flower Beetle - Anthaxia Crested Wood-Boring Beetle - Anthaxia - male - female beetle - Agrilaxia Agrilinae of sorts? - Agrilaxia - male Anthaxia? - Anthaxia Bupres - Anthaxia viridifrons Agrilaxia hespenheidei? - Agrilaxia hespenheidei
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles)
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Buprestinae
Tribe Anthaxiini
Explanation of Names
Anthaxiini Gory & Laporte 1839
Numbers
38 spp. in 2 genera (both in the nominate subtribe) in our area(1) and ca. 900 spp. in 10 genera worldwide(2) - in both cases, mostly Anthaxia
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
Contributed by v belov on 17 May, 2010 - 4:13am
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 8:21am

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