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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Polycesta

Genus Polycesta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Polycesta californica Buprestid in my herb garden - Polycesta aruensis Polycesta aruensis Obenberger - Polycesta aruensis Polycesta aruensis Polycesta aruensis Polycesta goryi? - Polycesta goryi * - Polycesta aruensis Metallic Wood Borer - Polycesta
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 Polycestinae
Genus Polycesta
Explanation of Names
Polycesta Dejean 1833
Numbers
12 spp. in 4 subgenera in our area; 53 spp. worldwide(1)
the nominate subgenus (not yet in the guide) includes one sp. from FL and one from TX(2)
Range
Africa, Australia, and the Americas(1); in our area, e. and so. US (PA, AL, FL, MO-TX-CA)(3)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Polycestini Lacordaire 1857, that contains 24 genera (~100 spp.) worldwide (most diverse in tropical Africa)(1)
Works Cited
1.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
2.Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 6 September, 2006 - 11:01pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2015 - 2:13pm

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