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Species Dicerca divaricata - Flatheaded Hardwood Borer

Dicera mutica - Dicerca divaricata Metallic Borer - Dicerca divaricata Dicerca - Dicerca divaricata buprestidae~ ? species - Dicerca divaricata Buprestidae - Dicerca divaricata Dicerca sp. - Dicerca divaricata Dicerca - Dicerca divaricata Dicerca divaricata
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 Chrysochroinae
Tribe Dicercini
Subtribe Dicercina
Genus Dicerca
Species divaricata (Flatheaded Hardwood Borer)
Explanation of Names
Dicerca divaricata (Say 1823)
Size
♂♂ 15.0-20.0 mm long, 5.0-6.7 mm wide; ♀♀ 15.1-22.0 mm long, 5.1-7.5 mm wide(1)
Identification
bright aeneous to dark cupreous with a greenish tint above and below; pronotum widest in the middle, with lateral margins subparallel at base, gently expanding in the middle, then narrowly converging to anterior angles; elytral striae fine but usually distinct; elytral apices usually more distinctly cupreous, entire or truncate, and usually divaricate(1)
Range
NB-GA to MB-UT-TX; West Indies(2)
Food
Larvae in Acer, Betula, Cercis, Fraxinus, Ostrya, Quercus, Ulmus(2)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Dicerca in North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Nelson G.H. 1975. Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey 26: 87-180.
2.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 tom murray on 14 July, 2006 - 8:03am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Joshua P. Basham, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 August, 2015 - 12:39pm

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