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Tribe Melanophilini

Phaenops gentilis - female Black Fire Beetle - Melanophila acuminata Beetle 1 - Melanophila acuminata Anthaxia? - Melanophila Phaenops gentilis female on bark of a downed Ponderosa Pine - Phaenops gentilis - female Melanophila consputa? - Melanophila consputa Phaenops - Phaenops fulvoguttata Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Melanophila acuminata
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 Melanophilini
Explanation of Names
Melanophilini Bedel 1921
Numbers
22 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1); 47 spp. in 6 genera total(2)
Identification
Keys to genra and most current species (in Spanish) (3)
Range
worldwide except the Neotropics (a single sp. in Australia)(2); 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
3.Ensayo monográfico sobre las Melanophila Eschscholtz sensu lato (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
Cobos, A. 1986. Eos : Revista Española de Entomología 62(1-4): 45-90.