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Tribe Tracheini

Beetle - Brachys aerosus Brachys aerosus Dark, bluish buprestid - Taphrocerus St. Andrews leaf miner on Lespedeza hirta SA469 2016 2 - Pachyschelus St. Andrews leaf miner on Carex glauca SA1432 Taphrocerus 2018 3 - Taphrocerus Pond drive leaf miner on Carex lurida D3207 2021 2 - Taphrocerus albodistinctus Taphrocerus nicolayi East Lake leaf miner on Carex tribuloides D3882 2022 3 - Taphrocerus
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 Tracheini
Pronunciation
Trachyini [misspelling that is prevalent in literature]
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tracheini Laporte 1835(1) or Gory & Laporte 1839(2)
Numbers
4 subtribes, with 32 spp. in 5 genera in our area(3) and ~2000 spp. in 11 genera worldwide (only one genus is monotypic, the second smallest includes 32 spp.)(2)
Range
worldwide (7 genera are precinctive to the New World)(2) and most of our area, esp. e. and so. US(3)
Works Cited
1.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
2.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
3.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.