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  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Beetles
  6. Elateriform Beetles
  7. Buprestoidea

superfamily

Buprestoidea

Buprestoidea

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

Field notes

Buprestoidea is a superfamily of beetles.

It contains two families:

Buprestidae Leach 1815, the jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles.

Schizopodidae LeConte 1861

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  • Metallic Wood-boring Beetles 469 native
  • False Jewel Beetles 4 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native Buprestoidea 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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