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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) » Buprestinae » Buprestini » Buprestis » subgenus Cypriacis (Buprestis subgenus Cypriacis) » Buprestis striata

Species Buprestis striata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Buprestis striata Beetle - Buprestis striata METALLIC WOODBORER, BUPRESTIDAE - Buprestis striata Beetle for ID - Buprestis striata Buprestis striata Buprestis striata Buprestis striata ? - Buprestis striata Buprestis striata
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 Buprestinae
Tribe Buprestini
Genus Buprestis
No Taxon (subgenus Cypriacis)
Species striata (Buprestis striata)
Explanation of Names
Buprestis striata Fabricius, 1775
Size
13-20 mm(1)
Range
e. NA (NB-FL to IL-TX)(2)
Food
larval hosts: dead Pinus (P. strobus, P. rigida, and probably all the southern yellow pines) and Tsuga(2)(3)(1)
Life Cycle
Remains in wood as adult from late October to spring and emerges in early April, seeks pine in its second death year. Larva sometimes found in sound pine logs but more frequently in decaying stumps.(1)
Works Cited
1.A review of the genus Buprestis in North America.
Nicolay, A.S. and H.B. Weiss. 1918. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 26(2): 75-109.
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.
3.The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Missouri
MacRae T.C. 1991. Insecta Mundi 5(2): 101-126.
Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 30 August, 2006 - 9:06pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov, mfdigiro
Last updated 8 October, 2021 - 10:53am

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