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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Chrysobothrini » Chrysobothris » Merkel Buprestid (Chrysobothris merkelii)

Species Chrysobothris merkelii - Merkel Buprestid

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
from our yellow Mexican Bird - Chrysobothris merkelii Chrysobothris merkelii - female Chrysobothris merkelii - female Chrysobothris merkelii Chrysobothris merkelii - male Buprestidae - Chrysobothris merkelii Buprestidae - Chrysobothris merkelii Chrysobothris femorata species group? - Chrysobothris merkelii
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 Buprestinae
Tribe Chrysobothrini
Genus Chrysobothris
Species merkelii (Merkel Buprestid)
Explanation of Names
Chrysobothris merkelii Horn 1886
Size
15.0-19.5 mm(1)
Range
sw. US (CA-NV-TX) & Mexico(2)
Food
Larvae in Acacia, Albizia, Prosopis, adults on a variety of hardwoods(2)
Remarks
Type Locality: Texas (2)
Print References
Horn G.H. (1886) A monograph of the species of Chrysobothris inhabiting the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 13: 65-124, plates ii-vii.
Vogt G.H. (1949) A biologically annotated list of the Buprestidae of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42: 192-202.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs
Solomon, J.D. 1995. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook. 735 pp.
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.
Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 6 December, 2006 - 10:45pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 September, 2014 - 9:06am

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