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Melanophilini
Tribe Melanophilini
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.
Contributed by
v belov
on 17 May, 2010 - 4:14am
Additional contributions by
Edward Ruden
Last updated 14 February, 2020 - 5:16pm