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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Tracheini » Brachyina » Brachys » Brachys howdeni

Species Brachys howdeni

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Agrilinae
Tribe Tracheini
Subtribe Brachyina
Genus Brachys
Species howdeni (Brachys howdeni)
Explanation of Names
Brachys howdeni Hespenheide, 2016
Named for Henry Howden, who reared the type specimen.
Identification

Paratype
Range
ME to MD to MI(1)
Food
Larvae mine leaves of trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens, Ericaceae).
Print References
Hespenheide, Henry A. and Charles S. Eiseman. 2016. A new species of Brachys Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the eastern United States using an unusual host. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70(2):335-340. (BioOne)
Internet References
BugTracks - Charles S. Eiseman, 2016
Works Cited
1.A new species of Brachys Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the eastern United States using an unusual host.
Hespenheide, H.A. and C.S. Eiseman. 2016. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70(2): 335-340.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 16 April, 2012 - 10:42am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 30 November, 2020 - 3:42pm

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