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For the United States & Canada

Genus Spectralia

Spectralia gracilipes BG2161 E0202 - Spectralia gracilipes BG2161 E0202 - Spectralia gracilipes Bupestrid - Spectralia gracilipes Black and Grey Bug - Spectralia gracilipes Spectralia gracilipes? - Spectralia gracilipes Buprestid collected at night - Spectralia gracilipes - female Spectralia cuprescens
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 Buprestinae
Genus Spectralia
Explanation of Names
Spectralia Casey 1909
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1), 22 total(2)
Range
New World(2); ne. US to NC; TX-CA(1)
Remarks
our only member of the New World tribe Phrixiini Cobos 1975, that contains ?3 genera(2)
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.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea