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Tribe Agrilini

Wood-borer beetle - Agrilus arcuatus Buprestid on Chrysothamnus - Agrilus walsinghami - male Red-necked Cane Borer - Agrilus ruficollis Agrilus abjectus Horn - Agrilus abjectus Very small Agrilus? - Agrilus Agrilus sp. - Agrilus exsapindi - female Male, Agrilus heterothecae? - Agrilus heterothecae - male Agrilus walsinghami - female
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 Agrilinae
Tribe Agrilini
Numbers
174 spp. in 3 genera in our area (171 spp. are in Agrilus)(1); >3200 spp. in 40 genera worldwide (close to 2900 spp. are in Agrilus), arranged in 4 subtribes(2)
Range
worldwide (with peak genus-level endemism in the Neotropics)(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 - 4:18am
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 8:28am

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