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

Species Acmaeodera mixta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Buprestid Beetle on Ruellia humilis - Acmaeodera mixta

Golden tan beetle with spots - Acmaeodera mixta

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

Tribe Acmaeoderini

Subtribe Acmaeoderina

Genus Acmaeodera

Species mixta (Acmaeodera mixta)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acmaeodera pulchella var. arizonae Horn 1878

Explanation of Names

Acmaeodera mixta LeConte 1860

Identification

"A common and extremely variable southwestern US species" ‒Ted C. MacRae

Range

MO‒AR‒TX to UT‒AZ & Mexico - Map (1)(2)

Food

Larvae in Acacia, Celtis, Prosopis(1)

See Also

apex of the abdomen, not the elytra, in A. pulchella is usually black, rarely yellow. In A. mixta, it is black and yellow.(Hilche 2009)

Print References

(3)(4)(5)(6)

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)

3.	Dist. and bio notes on N. Amer. Buprestidae, w/ comments on var. in Anthaxia viridicornis (Say) and A. viridfrons Gory. MacRae, T.C. 2006. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 82(2): 166–199.

4.	Distributional and biological notes on Buprestidae (Coleoptera) in N. and C. America and the W. Indies, w/ validation of one sp. MacRae, T.C. & G.H. Nelson. 2003. The Coleopterists Bulletin 57(1): 57-70.

5.	A new species of Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) Reitter (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and new North American buprestid [...] records Wellso S.G., Jackman J.A. 2006. Pan-Pac. Entomol. 82: 262-268.

6.	A biologically annotated list of the Buprestidae of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Vogt, G.B. 1949. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42(2): 191-202.

Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 25 September, 2006 - 12:23pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 30 October, 2023 - 10:27pm

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