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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » False Jewel Beetles (Schizopodidae) » Dystaxia

Genus Dystaxia

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Dystaxia elegans - male - female Dystaxia elegans Dystaxia murrayi LeConte 1866 - Dystaxia murrayi - male False Jewel Beetle - Dystaxia murrayi False Jewel Beetle (Family Schizopodidae) - Dystaxia murrayi Dystaxia elegans ????? - Dystaxia elegans Dystaxia elegans ????? - Dystaxia elegans Dystaxia elegans ????? - Dystaxia elegans
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 Schizopodidae (False Jewel Beetles)
Genus Dystaxia
Numbers
2 spp. in the genus, both in our area(1)(2)
Range
CA(1)(3)
Works Cited
1.A revision and phylogenetic re-evaluation of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera, Buprestoidea)
G.H. Nelson & C.L. Bellamy. 1991. Journal of Natural History 25:985-1026.
2.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
3.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.
Contributed by v belov on 8 March, 2011 - 4:29pm
Last updated 8 March, 2011 - 6:07pm

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