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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Spectralia
Genus
Spectralia
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
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 7 June, 2006 - 7:57am
Additional contributions by
Mike Quinn
,
v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 3:12pm