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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Agrilini » Agrilus » Agrilus subrobustus

Species Agrilus subrobustus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Agrilus sp. - Agrilus subrobustus - male

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

Genus Agrilus

Species subrobustus (Agrilus subrobustus)

Explanation of Names

Agrilus subrobustus Saunders 1873

Size

3.7–5.8 mm(1)

Identification

Range

native to E. Asia (China to Japan); in our area, se. US (NC-GA-AL-TN)(1)

Season

May-Aug in TN (2)

Food

host: silk tree (mimosa), Albizia julibrissin (Fabaceae)(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: GA 2006(3)

the host, mimosa, widely planted in se. US, has become so naturalized that in certain areas it is considered an invasive species(1)

See Also

closely resembles the native A. cephalicus(1)

Print References

Hansen J., Moulton J.K., Klingeman W.E. (2010) Range expansion and adult flight activity of Agrilus subrobustus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Tennessee. Florida Entomologist 93(3):444-445.

Swink W.G., Nalepa C.A., Basham J.P. (2015) Agrilus subrobustus Saunders (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) first detected in North Carolina as prey of the wasp Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Col. Bull. 69: 274 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Agrilus subrobustus Saunders (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): New southeastern U.S. records of an Asian immigrant on mimosa... Hoebeke R.E., Wheeler A.G. 2011. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 113: 315-324.

2.	Range expansion and adult flight activity of Agrilus subrobustus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Tennessee. Hansen J., Moulton J.K., Klingeman W.E. 2010. Florida Entomologist 93(3): 444-445.

3.	The exotic Agrilus subrobustus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is found in northern Georgia Wescott R.L. 2007. Col. Bull. 61: 111-112.

Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 7 June, 2010 - 6:01pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 March, 2017 - 10:41am

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