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Genus Spectralia

Black and Grey Bug - Spectralia gracilipes

Spectralia gracilipes? - Spectralia gracilipes

Buprestid collected at night - Spectralia gracilipes - female

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

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