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Species Acmaeodera idahoensis

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles)
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Polycestinae
Tribe Acmaeoderini
Subtribe Acmaeoderina
Genus Acmaeodera
Species idahoensis (Acmaeodera idahoensis)
Explanation of Names
Acmaeodera idahoensis Barr 1969
Range
Northwest, CA to Rocky Mountains. Also in British Columbia.
Food
Larval host Krascheninnikovia lanata
Print References
Nelson, G. H., G. C. Walters, Jr., R. D. Haines, and C. L. Bellamy. 2008. A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publ. No. 4: 1-274.