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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera gillespiensis

Species Acmaeodera gillespiensis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Works Cited

Acmaeodera gillespiensis Knull - Acmaeodera gillespiensis

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 gillespiensis (Acmaeodera gillespiensis)

Explanation of Names

Acmaeodera gillespiensis Knull 1941

Type Locality: Gillespie Co., TX (1), most likely at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area

Size

9-10 mm

Identification

prominent submarginal ridge (J. Hanson, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019), or as Knull (1941) says, "raised third costa" (1)

series from the same sw TX collecting event:

all dets. J. Hansen, 2019

Range

NM(2) to c. TX / Mex. to C. Amer. - Map (3)(4)

Season

May-July (BG data)

Food

Oak - Quercus sp. (3)

Print References

Knull, J.N. 1941. Two new Texas Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Entomological News 52: 98-100. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Two new Texas Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Knull, J.N. 1941. Entomological News 52(4): 98-100.

2.	University of Texas Insect Collection (UTIC)

3.	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.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 May, 2011 - 9:27am
Last updated 3 December, 2020 - 11:49am

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