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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 gibbula

Species Acmaeodera gibbula

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Acmaeodera - Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera gibbula LeConte - Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera gibbula? - Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera gibbula? - Acmaeodera gibbula beetle - Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera gibbula Acmaeodera gibbula
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 gibbula (Acmaeodera gibbula)
Explanation of Names
Acmaeodera gibbula LeConte 1858
gibbula = 'somewhat humped'
Identification
variable:
Range
sw. US (s. CA to sw TX, s. NV-UT) / Mex. - Map (1)(2)
Food
larvae mostly host on various legumes (1)
Remarks
Type Locality: San Diego to El Paso (1)
Print References
LeConte J.L. 1858. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera, chiefly collected by the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, under Major W.H.Emory, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 59-89
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 Joshua P. Basham on 14 September, 2006 - 11:31pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 April, 2019 - 12:29pm

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