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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Hippomelanina » Gyascutus » subgenus Gyascutus (Gyascutus subgenus Gyascutus) » Gyascutus planicosta » Gyascutus planicosta obliteratus

Subspecies Gyascutus planicosta obliteratus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Gyascutus (Gyascutus) planicosta obliteratus (LeConte) - Gyascutus planicosta

A live G. planicosta obliteratus - Gyascutus planicosta

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 Hippomelanina

Genus Gyascutus

No Taxon (subgenus Gyascutus)

Species planicosta (Gyascutus planicosta)

Subspecies obliteratus (Gyascutus planicosta obliteratus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gyascutus planicosta obliteratus (LeConte)

Orig. Comb: Chalcophora obliterata LeConte, 1858

Explanation of Names

oblitera (L). 'erase' (1)

Numbers

3 subspecies (2)

Range

AZ to w., & n. TX / Mex. - Map (2)(3)

Food

larvae host unk. (2)

Life Cycle

Adults on Acacia, Mimosa, Larrea, Tamarix (2)

Remarks

Type Locality: San Diego (2)

Print References

LeConte J.L. 1858. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera, chiefly collected by the United States and Mexican Boudary Commission, under Major W.H.Emory, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 59-89.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	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.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 1 June, 2011 - 9:55am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 2 May, 2019 - 10:12pm

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