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Species Buprestis maculativentris - Ventrally-spotted Buprestid

Representative Images

Beetle - Buprestis maculativentris Buprestis maculativentris Buprestis maculativentris? - Buprestis maculativentris Buprestis maculativentris - female Buprestis maculativentris - female Bronze Buprestid with orange spots on underside - Buprestis maculativentris * - Buprestis maculativentris Dicerca? - Buprestis maculativentris

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
Tribe Buprestini
Genus Buprestis
No Taxon (subgenus Buprestis)
Species maculativentris (Ventrally-spotted Buprestid)

Explanation of Names

Buprestis maculativentris Say 1824

Size

13-20 mm

Range

Rocky Mtns to n. Canada & across ne US(1)

Habitat

Boreal forests

Food

larvae in Abies, Picea, Pinus(1)

Life Cycle

Females lay eggs in crevices of pine and spruce branches. Life cycle takes two or more years.

Works Cited

1.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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 June, 2006 - 9:31am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, lee_penner
Last updated 1 September, 2021 - 4:08am

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