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Tribe Chrysobothrini

buprestid - Chrysobothris quadriimpressa - male unknown  - Chrysobothris femorata Buprestid - Chrysobothris mali Chrysobothris merkelii - male Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Chrysobothris dentipes Some kind of beetle - Chrysobothris Chrysobothris ludificata Smiley-face bup - Chrysobothris viridiceps
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 Chrysobothrini
Explanation of Names
Chrysobothrini Gory & Laporte 1838
Numbers
136 spp. in 3 genera in our area (incl. 130 Chrysobothris spp.)(1); >770 spp. in 6 genera worldwide (incl. >700 Chrysobothris spp.)(2)
Range
worldwide(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