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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera bowditchi

Species Acmaeodera bowditchi

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · 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 (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Buprestoidea (Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles)

Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)

Subfamily Polycestinae

Tribe Acmaeoderini

Subtribe Acmaeoderina

Genus Acmaeodera

Species bowditchi (Acmaeodera bowditchi)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acmaeodera bowditchi Fall 1901

Explanation of Names

Eponym for "Mr. F. C. Bowditch of Boston" (Fall, 1901), see Remarks.

Size

8-9 mm (Fall, 1901)

Identification

per Jason Hansen:

lateral margin of the pronotum not visible for its entire length from above

pronotum and elytra more bronzed than black as in macra

yellow spot on side of pronotum is usually much larger in macra

Range

AZ to c. TX, NV - Map (1)(2)

Season

Apr-July (BG data)

Food

Larvae in dead branches of Quercus vaseyana, adults on flowers of Erigeron, Eriogonum, Melampodium, Sphaeralcea, Tetraneuris(1)

Remarks

Type locality: Prescott, AZ (1)

Notes on eponym

"Mr. F.C. Bowditch of Boston" appears to be Frederick Channing Bowditch (1854-1925), son of William Ingersoll Bowditch (1819-1909), making him the grandson of famed navigator Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838). See also brief biography on wikitree.

See Also

Acmaeodera macra Horn

- Range: TX-OK

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

Print References

Fall, H.C. 1901. Notes on Dichelonycha and Cantharis, with descriptions of new species in other genera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 27: 307-308 (BHL links--article, description).

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

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.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by tom murray on 11 August, 2006 - 8:36pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Joshua P. Basham, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 30 August, 2022 - 7:57pm

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