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Genus Acmaeoderoides

Acmaeoderoides stramineus Nelson - Acmaeoderoides stramineus Acmaeoderoides stramineus Nelson - Acmaeoderoides stramineus Acmaeoderoides humeralis (Cazier) - Acmaeoderoides humeralis Acmaeoderoides ferruginis Wellso & Nelson - Acmaeoderoides ferruginis - male Acmaeoderoides stramineus Acmaeoderoides stramineus Acmaeoderoides distinctus Acmaeoderoides rossi
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
Genus Acmaeoderoides
Explanation of Names
Acmaeoderoides Van Dyke 1942
Numbers
12 spp., all in our area(1)(2)
Range
sw. US (TX-CA), by far more diverse in CA, where all but one sp. are present, of which two range into AZ; A. ferruginis is precinctive to TX(3)
Food
host plant info here(3)
Remarks
member of the subtribe Acmaeoderoidina Cobos 1955
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.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
3.Bellamy C.L. The Buprestidae of North America (north of Mexico)
Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 2 November, 2006 - 11:03pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2015 - 6:19pm

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