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Genus Agaeocera

Agaeocera gentilis (Horn) - Agaeocera gentilis

Narrow, bright green beetle - Agaeocera gentilis

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 Agaeocera

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

treated in the Chalcophorini in(1)

Explanation of Names

Agaeocera Saunders 1871

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1), 3 total(2)

Range

New World(2); in our area, 1 sp. in TX-CA & 1 sp. in AZ(1)

Remarks

member of the primarily neotropical subtribe Agaeocerina Nelson 1982 that contains 13 spp. in 3 genera(2)

Works Cited

1.	Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)

2.	Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 24 August, 2006 - 10:01am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 8:19am

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