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Family Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae)

Buprestidae is a family in the order Coleoptera. Browse 667 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Buprestidae (667)

Acmaeodera acuta

Acmaeodera acuta is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in the western United States and Mexico. Its larval host is likely Salix and adults hosts include Achillea, Encelia, Rosa, Salix, and Sphaeralcea. The

Acmaeodera amplicollis

Identification: Det. M. A. Quinn, 2017 Type locality: Fort Whipple, AZ

Acmaeodera atactospilota

Type locality: near Littlerock, Los Angeles Co., CA

Acmaeodera auritincta

Identification: metallic green pronotum, though that character is a variable (J. Hansen, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019) Det. J. Hansen, 2017 Type Locality: Kent, Culberson Co., Texas, Sept., 17-18, 1912, 3900-4200 ft

Acmaeodera bashami

Identification: The easiest character that separates A. bashami from A. quadrivittatoides is the third lateral elytral stria. In A. quadrivittatoides it splits near the umbone after 0-3 punctures and in A. bashami is splits much closer to the middle

Acmaeodera bowditchi

Identification: per Jason Hansen: Type locality: Prescott, AZ Notes on eponym "Mr. F.C. Bowditch of Boston" appears to be Frederick Channing Bowditch (1854-1925) , son of William Ingersoll Bowditch (1819-1909) , making him the grandson of famed navig

Acmaeodera chiricahuae

Identification: Can be separated from Acmaeodera flavomarginata by having the red elytral fasciae usually interrupted at middle, the yellow lateral stripe usually much more expanded medially and a well developed subapical plate on 5th ventrite. Type

Acmaeodera conoidea

Identification: can easily be separated from similar species of Texas Acmaeodera by broadly emarginate clypeus, third lateral strial split near the umbone, and larval host

Acmaeodera coquilletti

Hosts: Ceanothus crassifolius, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Lotus scoparius, Quercus beberidifolia, Quercus wislizeni

Acmaeodera errans

Identification: Species determination based on the "coarsely punctured black abdomen, the concave nature of the last abdominal sternite which is broadly rounded in both sexes and on the consistently immaculate humeral angle of the elytra."

Acmaeodera fattigi

Identification: Most similar to Acmaeodera mimicata , but differs in the presence of a apical red spot on each elytron. The elytra are also more shiny.

Acmaeodera flavomarginata

Identification: Can be separated from Acmaeodera chiricahuae by having the red elytral fasciae not interrupted at middle, the yellow lateral stripe not distinctly expanded medially and the lack of a subapical plate on 5th ventrite.

Acmaeodera gibbula

Identification: variable: Type Locality: San Diego to El Paso

Acmaeodera gillespiensis

Identification: prominent submarginal ridge (J. Hanson, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019), or as Knull says, "raised third costa" series from the same sw TX collecting event: all dets. J. Hansen, 2019 Entomolgists Josef and Dorothy Knull spent many summers c

Acmaeodera haemorrhoa

Identification: Det. M. A. Quinn, 2009 Type locality: TX, Laredo to Ringgold Barracks ; first collected by Horace Haldeman during the Mexico boundary survey

Acmaeodera horni

This species has been very rarely collected. It was known only from the type until a specimen was found in the University of Arizona Insect Collection from the Santa Catalina Mountains. Rick Westcott and Chuck Bellamy went to the locality of that spe

Acmaeodera immaculata

Acmaeodera immaculata is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Acmaeodera latiflava

Acmaeodera latiflava is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Acmaeodera macra

Identification: Det. E. G. Riley, 2009 Uncommon per MacRae (2006) ( 4 ) , though locally common in s. Hidalgo Co., TX - Oct. 2009 (MAQ, pers. obs.) Jaguarundi Trail, Santa Ana NWR, Hidalgo Co., TX - Oct. 2009

Acmaeodera maculifera

Identification: Can be separated from Acmaeodera princeps by having the pronotum explanate, the basal angle often produced.

Acmaeodera mixta

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

Acmaeodera neglecta

Identification: highly variable, similar to A. tubulus , but elytra less shiny and more strongly punctate. The joining of the basal elytral yellow spots into C-shaped markings occurs commonly in this species but rarely in A. tubulus . ‒T.C. MacRae, 7

Acmaeodera nigrovittata

Acmaeodera nigrovittata is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. A. Nigrovittata is found in North America.

Acmaeodera opuntiae

Identification: A. opuntiae has distinctly flattened setae. Also, the form is not as broad as is typical for A. neglecta . (T.C. MacRae, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019) Type Locality: 5 mi W. Sullivan City, Starr Co., TX ( 3 )

Acmaeodera ornata

Identification: elongated curved pale lateral humeral mark (J. Hanson, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019) Det. J.A. Hansen, 2019 infrequently collected

Acmaeodera ornatoides

Identification: short straight pale lateral humeral mark (J. Hanson, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019) Det. R. L. Westcott, 2012 Type Locality: Goliad Co., Texas

Acmaeodera paradisjuncta

Acmaeodera paradisjuncta (Acmaeodera paradisjuncta) is a species in the family Buprestidae, commonly known as metallic wood-boring beetles, belonging to the order Coleoptera (Beetles). It is classified within the subfamily Polycestinae, tribe Acmaeod

Acmaeodera princeps

Type locality of Acmaeodera princeps Kerremans 1908 is "Nouv Zelande" (New Zealand) - likely lapsus memoriae TL of Acmaeodera flavinigrapunctata Knull 1928 is Raymondville, Willacy Co., Texas

Acmaeodera recticollis

Identification: the apical [lateral elytral] spots are more or less reddish. Det. S. G. Wells

Acmaeodera riograndei

Acmaeodera riograndei is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

Acmaeodera robigo

Identification: Det. S. Wellso, 1996 Type Locality: Lake Corpus Christi, TX

Acmaeodera solitaria

Identification: strong serrations along the elytral margin (J. Hansen, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2019) Dets. M. A. Quinn, 2017 Type Locality: "Mexique"

Acmaeodera sphaeralceae

Acmaeodera sphaeralceae is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Acmaeodera tildenorum

Acmaeodera tildenorum (Acmaeodera tildenorum) is a species in the family Buprestidae, commonly known as metallic wood-boring beetles, belonging to the order Coleoptera (Beetles). It is classified within the subfamily Polycestinae, tribe Acmaeoderini,

Acmaeodera tubulus

Identification: A. tubulus vs A. neglecta (mostly south-central US north to MO; the lower left individual only): note the coarser and larger elytral punctures on A. neglecta and the C-shaped markings formed by coalescing humeral and premedial spots.

Acmaeodera tuta

See under "Print References". The group is confusing and needs a thorough study.

Acmaeodera uvaldensis

Type locality: Uvalde, Texas only a few US records reported

Acmaeodera variegata

Identification: Pronotum much more deeply punctate than other species in the Acmaeodera pulchella complex (i.e. Acmaeodera pulchella, A. mixta, A. immaculata) Type Locality: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Acmaeoderopsis chisosensis

Identification: elytra of some specimens have a bluish reflection. Type Locality: Chisos Mountains, Brewster Co., Texas

Acmaeoderopsis hualpaiana

Identification: Similar and closely related to A. rockefelleri , but separated by range and the lack of abundant scales along the lateral sides of the elytra.

Acmaeoderopsis hulli

Acmaeoderopsis hulli (Acmaeoderopsis hulli) is a species in the family Buprestidae, commonly known as metallic wood-boring beetles, belonging to the order Coleoptera (Beetles). It is classified within the subfamily Polycestinae, tribe Acmaeoderini, s

Acmaeoderopsis jaguarina

Identification: Easily separated from all Acmaeoderopsis by the distinctively narrowed shape as well as the combination of semi-circular, fan-like scales and stout, semi-erect setae on the elytra.

Acmaeoderopsis prosopis

Acmaeoderopsis prosopis is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Actenodes acornis

Identification: Fourth segment of antenna strongly triangular, at widest part nearly twice as wide as third, and the following segments transverse (wider than long).

Actenodes flexicaulis

Identification: posterior angles of pronotum converging vs. Actenodes calcarata Type series: Esperanza Ranch and S. Tomas [Sabal Palm Sanctuary], Brownsville, Tex. Four specimens in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. (Schaeffer 1904)

Agrilaxia texana

Identification: Can be separated from A. flavimana by coloration and male genitalia. Can be separated by A. flavimana by its flat frons, smooth elytra and male genitalia.

Agrilus abjectus

Identification: The species is not conspicuously marked, but among those in which the antennae are serrate from the fifth joint it may be known by the very convex pronotum, with a feeble median depression, absence of prehumeral carinae, the feeble pu

Agrilus acaciae

Agrilus acaciae is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

Agrilus aeneocephalus

Agrilus aeneocephalus is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Bronze Birch Borer

Agrilus anxius

The bronze birch borer Agrilus anxius is a wood-boring Buprestid beetle native to North America, more numerous in warmer parts of the continent and rare in the north. It is a serious pest on birch trees (Betula), frequently killing them. The river bi

Agrilus arbuti

Agrilus arbuti is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Goldspotted Oak Borer

Agrilus auroguttatus

A. coxalis , almost identical in appearance, is found in Central Mexico and n. Guatemala (at some point A. auroguttatus was treated as a subspecies of A. coxalis ) It is a native of Mexico and Guatemala and was first detected in Arizona in late 1800'

Agrilus bentseni

Identification: "Form small, rather robust; shining dark bronze throughout; a patch of white pubescence in lateral depression of pronotum, one in basal depression of elytron, an elongate patch at middle and a like patch on apical third of each elytro

Agrilus bespencus

Identification: A. bespencus has a very slightly, medially depressed upper frons, visible in this photo, (which A. pubescens doesn't have). Det. Norm Woodley, 2020 Type Locality: Sheffield, Pecos Co., Texas, Apr- 1924, Collector J. O. Martin

Oak Jewel Beetle

Agrilus biguttatus

It is similar to some other members of the genus with shiny metallic looking elytra, but the elytra of Agrilus biguttatus are rounded at the tips, and there is only one white scaly patch on each elytron somewhere at the end of the second third and be

Two-lined Chestnut Borer

Agrilus bilineatus

Larvae are a major mortality agent of stressed oaks, particularly red oaks (Muzika et al. 2000)

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Agrilus brattaini

Type Locality: Del Rio Co., 1 mi E. Del Rio (KOA Campground), 18.iv.1973, S. G. Wellso.

Agrilus burkei

Agrilus burkei is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus cochisei

Type Locality: Dragoon Mts., Arizona, Sept. 10, 1947,

Agrilus corylicola

Identification: Formerly a subspecies of Agrilus arcuatus . Key to subspecies in Infrequently collected

Agrilus cupreonitens

Identification: pit on pronotum is diagnostic (J.A. Hansen, comment) Type Locality: Brownsville, Cameron Co., Texas

Agrilus cyanescens

Length 4.5 to 7 mm. Sometimes known as the Metallic wood-boring Beetle, this species usually has a metallic blue-green appearance. The larvae are found in Honeysuckle, where they live just under the bark, but will also use other hosts. Uncommon in Br

Agrilus defectus

Agrilus defectus is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus delicatulus

"quite common in Mexico." (Rick Westcott, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2013)

Agrilus derasofasciatus

Identification: adult habitus photos by Boris Loboda • Nikola Rahmé

Agrilus dollii

Identification: elytral apices emarginate (Schaeffer 1904) Texas considers this sp. a SGCN ( 5 )

Agrilus egenus

Identification: Male genitalia distinct with sides very strongly, arcuately expanded

Agrilus exsapindi

Agrilus exsapindi is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus falli

Agrilus falli is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

Agrilus ferrisi

Identification: elytral tips distinctive? Type Locality: Cincinnati, OH Uncommon according to comment by Norm Woodley.

Agrilus gillespiensis

Type Locality: Holotype male and allotype collected in Gillespie Co., Texas, May 7, 1946, by D. J. & J. N. Knull Enchanted Rock is located in Gillespie Co., and is one of the the primary geological features of central Texas

Granulate Poplar Borer

Agrilus granulatus

may kill limbs and entire poplar/cottonwood trees ( 4 )

Agrilus hespenheidei

Agrilus hespenheidei is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus heterothecae

Identification: This species is commonly confused with Agrilus huachucae . The two can be separated as follows: Agrilus heterothecae has antennomere 3 with the distal end triangular, almost serrate, and ranges in size from 5.6-7 mm. Agrilus huachucae

Agrilus huachucae

Identification: This species is commonly confused with Agrilus heterothecae . The two can be separated as follows: Agrilus heterothecae has antennomere 3 triangular, almost serrate and ranges in size from 5.6-7 mm. Agrilus huachucae has antennomere

St. John's Wort Root Borer

Agrilus hyperici

Agrilus hyperici, the St. John's wort root borer, is a species of jewel beetle. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against common St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) in areas where it is a noxious weed or invasive species.

Agrilus lacustris

Identification: Det. G. H. Nelson, 1997 Type Locality: Lake Superior at LaPointe, WIS

Agrilus langei

Recent new U.S. record, not listed in Nelson et al. (2008) ( 3 )

Agrilus laticornis

Length 4.5 to 6 mm, often with a rather bronzy sheen. Oak woodland or other areas where oak is found. The larvae burrow through the bark of dead trunks and branches of Oak. Widespread in the southern half of Britain. No additional images available fo

Agrilus lautuellus

Agrilus lautuellus is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus limpiae

Identification: can be separated from the common A. obsoletoguttatus by more prominent pubescent markings and lateral lobes of the aedeagus

Bronze Poplar Borer

Agrilus liragus

Woodpeckers enjoy eating the larvae, pupae, and adults. ( 3 )

Agrilus malvastri

Identification: last key couplet: Pronotum wider than long; pubescent vittae on elytra feebly indicated Described from a large series of 69 specimens which show considerable variations, the color varying from bronzy green to cupreous brown, and the p

Maple Agrilus

Agrilus masculinus

Agrilus masculinus, the maple agrilus, is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus mimosae

Identification: species has very odd male genitalia unlike any other North American species. Type Locality: Devil's River, [Val Verde Co.], Texas

Agrilus neoprosopidus

Identification: in the female, the front of the head is bronze Det. E. G. Riley 2009 Very similar to Agrilus pectoralis and A. prosopidis . It can be separated from both those species by the marginal and submarginal carina being joined near the base

Agrilus obscurilineatus

Identification: sides of the abdominal segments are glabrous, but the dorsal portions above the carinae are densely pubescent. … Henry Hespenheide, 20 November, 2010 Type Locality: TX: Starr Co., 6.5 mi. SE Rio Grande City, hwy to Mission

Agrilus obtusus

Type Locality: TX: "probably near lower Rio Grande"

Agrilus ometauhtli

Identification: Elytra with vittae along suture, antennae serrate from 5th antennomere, marginal and submarginal carina separate anteriorly and joining near base, pronotum strongly elevated basolaterally, dense white pubescence on 1st and 2nd lateral

Agrilus osburni

Agrilus osburni is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus parabductus

Type Locality: Lake Corpus Christi, San Patricio County, Texas. Other paratypes Frio Co. and Val Verde Co.

Agrilus paracelti

Agrilus paracelti is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.

Agrilus pensus

Identification: With pygidial spine; uniformly reddish-cupreous dorsally

Agrilus pilosicollis

Identification: most similar in appearance to A. quadriguttatus Gory and A. granulatus (Say), can be separated by lack of a prehumeral carina and presence of a broadly rounded or subtruncate prosternal lobe. Known from 4 specimens Type Locality: Gard

Agrilus pilosovittatus

earliest record in our area: NJ 1965 (Hespenheide 1969)

Soapberry Borer

Agrilus prionurus

Identification: markings distinctive; shiny black, with 4 small white spots on elytra Infested trees observed in Travis and McLennan counties as early as 1998. (Billings and Pase, 2009) In the spring of 2009, Texas Forest Service, and several other s

Agrilus prosopidis

Identification: Det. S. G. Wellso Type Locality: Brownsville, Cameron Co., TX ( 4 )

Agrilus pubescens

Agrilus pubescens (Agrilus pubescens) is a species in the family Buprestidae, commonly known as metallic wood-boring beetles, belonging to the order Coleoptera (Beetles). It is classified within the subfamily Agrilinae, tribe Agrilini, suborder Polyp

Agrilus quadriguttatus

Identification: very close to, and is confused with granulatus in collections, differs in more convex frons and pubescence not obscuring the surface ( 3 )

Agrilus ribesi

Jendek et al. (2015) report the Eurasian species Agrilus ribesi Schaefer, 1946, for the first time from North America and propose that the damage to currants ( Ribes spp.) in Ontario prior to 1940 and ascribed to A. cuprescens by Garlick (1940) were