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Species Acmaeodera variegata

Representative Images

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Acmaeodera variegata Cute buprestid nectaring on golden composite - Acmaeodera variegata Acmaeodera - Acmaeodera variegata ID this colorado bug - Acmaeodera variegata Acmaeodera variegata * - Acmaeodera variegata Beetle - NM - Acmaeodera variegata Beetle - NM - Acmaeodera variegata

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 Polycestinae
Tribe Acmaeoderini
Subtribe Acmaeoderina
Genus Acmaeodera
Species variegata (Acmaeodera variegata)

Explanation of Names

Acmaeodera variegata LeConte 1852

Identification

Pronotum much more deeply punctate than other species in the Acmaeodera pulchella complex (i.e. Acmaeodera pulchella, A. mixta, A. immaculata)

Range

CA to s. TX, CO - Map (1)(2)

Life Cycle

larval host unk. (1)

Remarks

Type Locality: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Print References

LeConte, J.L. 1852. Remarks on some Coleopterous Insects collected by S. H. Woodhouse in Missouri Territory and New Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 65-68.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico.
Nelson et al. 2008. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4. 274 pp.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by v belov on 18 May, 2010 - 11:47pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, jahansen
Last updated 17 August, 2020 - 9:36am

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