| Agrilus | |
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| Agrilus cephalicus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Subfamily: | Agrilinae |
| Tribe: | Agrilini |
| Subtribe: | Agrilina |
| Genus: | Agrilus Curtis, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Buprestis viridis | |
| Diversity | |
| 2,877+ species [1] | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Agrilus is a genus of jewel beetles, notable for having the largest number of species (about 3000) of any single genus in the animal kingdom. [3] Species of the genus have a cosmopolitan distribution on all continents except Antarctica, [4] and feed on a wide variety of flowering plant hosts. [5] The best known species is the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), a serious pest of ash trees, with other notable species including Agrilus biguttatus and Agrilus auroguttatus, which are pests of oak trees.
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