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Species Dicerca lurida

Buprestid - Dicerca lurida BG834 C8019 - Dicerca lurida Dicerca climbing tree trunk - Dicerca lurida Metalic-wood Boring Beetle - Dicerca lurida Dicerca obscura? - Dicerca lurida Metallic wood-boring beetle? - Dicerca lurida Dicerca lurida - female Dicerca lurida
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 Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Subtribe Dicercina
Genus Dicerca
Species lurida (Dicerca lurida)
Explanation of Names
Dicerca lurida (Fabricius 1775)
Range
e NA (QC-ON-MN to FL-TX)(1)
Food
Larvae in Alnus, Carpinus, Carya, Prunus, Salix, Tilia(1)
See Also
Dicerca obscura - see shape of hind coxal plate to differentiate (2)
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.Field Guide to the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Northeastern North America.
Paiero et al. 2012. Canadian Food Inspection Agency. 411 pp.