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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Beetles
  6. Buprestoidea
  7. Metallic Wood-boring Beetles

family

Metallic Wood-boring Beetles

Buprestidae

Includes
469 native 13 introduced 8 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Polycestinae 158 native
  • Buprestinae 144 native
  • Agrilinae 115 native
  • Chrysochroinae 52 native
  • Julodinae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native metallic wood-boring beetles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Sculptured Pine Borer Chalcophora virginiensis 6,146 observations
  • Golden Buprestid Beetle Buprestis aurulenta 4,960 observations
  • Western Sculptured Pine Borer Chalcophora angulicollis 3,616 observations
  • Red-necked Cane Borer Agrilus ruficollis 2,887 observations
  • Southern Sculptured Pine Borer Chalcophora georgiana 598 observations
  • Common Hackberry Agrilus Agrilus lecontei 493 observations
  • Two-lined Chestnut Borer Agrilus bilineatus 432 observations
  • Desmodium Leaf-mining Beetle Pachyschelus laevigatus 422 observations
  • Strong Jewel Beetle Chalcophora fortis 375 observations
  • Ornate Yellow-marked Buprestid Acmaeodera ornata 341 observations
  • Northeastern Sculptured Pine Borer Chalcophora liberta 61 observations

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