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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Thrincopygini » Thrincopyge

Genus Thrincopyge

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Sotol stalk buprestid - Thrincopyge alacris Sotol stalk buprestid - Thrincopyge alacris Thrincopyge ambiens (LeConte) - Thrincopyge ambiens Thrincopyge ambiens Thrincopyge alacris Thrincopyge alacris ** - Thrincopyge ambiens Beetle - Thrincopyge alacris
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 Thrincopygini
Genus Thrincopyge
Explanation of Names
Thrincopyge LeConte 1858
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1)(2); 3 spp. total(3)
Identification
Type specimens of T. alacris and T. ambiens
Key to spp. and habitus photos in(2)
Range
sw. US (TX-AZ)(1); one more sp. in the Neotropics(3)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.A review of the genus Thrincopyge LeConte (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
G.H. Nelson. 1980. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 56(4): 297-310.
3.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 March, 2006 - 5:36pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 2:25pm

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