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Genus Agrilus

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Agrilus putillus

Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle - Agrilus obsoletoguttatus

Red-Necked Cane Borer - Agrilus ruficollis

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

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in (1) but ~50 spp. added since

Explanation of Names

Agrilus Curtis 1825

Numbers

The largest genus of the family and allegedly world's largest animal genus, with 174 spp. (in 2 subgenera) in our area(2), of which 9 adventive(3), and >3,300 described spp. total (and perhaps as many unnamed), arranged in >30 subgenera(4)

Size

up to 10 mm, usually 4‒7 mm

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(2)(5)(6)

Food

Most are wood borers(7); hosts reviewed in(6)(8)

Remarks

most adventive spp. discussed in (3)

NA records of A. integerrimus [e.g. in (9)] are in error stemming from a typo in (10) (Kyle Schnepp, pers.comm. to =v= 12.ii.2014)

Print References

Bellamy C.L. 1995(1996) Comments on the genus Agrilus Curtis, 1825: Where do we go and do we go together? (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae). Elytron 9: 77–86.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the genus Agrilus. Fisher W.S. 1928. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 145: 1-347.

2.	Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)

3.	Agrilus sulcicollis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a new alien species in North America Jendek E., Grebennikov V.V. 2009. Can. Entomol. 141: 236–245.

4.	Summary of native geographic distribution of all 3,341 species of the most speciose animal genus Agrilus (Col.: Buprestidæ) Jendek E., Grebennikov V.V. 2023. J. Insect Biodiversity 39(2): 32‒78.

5.	Bellamy C.L. () The world of jewel beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

6.	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.

7.	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.

8.	Host plants of world Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae): A critical review Jendek E., Poláková J. 2014. Springer, 706 pp.

9.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

10.	Miscellaneous notes on Buprestidae and Schizopodidae occurring in the United States and Canada... Nelson G.H., Westcott R.L., MacRae T.C. 1996. The Coleopterists Bulletin 50: 183–191.

Contributed by Cotinis on 28 June, 2004 - 7:28am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Joshua Stuart Rose, Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 15 August, 2024 - 10:46pm

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