Buprestis

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Buprestis
Buprestis aurulenta crop.jpg
Buprestis aurulenta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Buprestidae
Subfamily: Buprestinae
Tribe: Buprestini
Genus: Buprestis
Linnaeus, 1758

Buprestis is a genus of beetles in the tribe Buprestini, the jewel beetles. As of 2011 there were 78 described species distributed across most of the world's biogeographic realms except parts of Africa and Antarctica. [1]

Buprestis dalmatina Buprestis dalmatina front.jpg
Buprestis dalmatina
Buprestis haemorrhoidalis Buprestis haemorrhoidalis side2.JPG
Buprestis haemorrhoidalis
Buprestis lineata Buprestis lineata.jpg
Buprestis lineata
Buprestis novemmaculata Buprestis novemmaculata bl.jpg
Buprestis novemmaculata
Buprestis octoguttata BuprestisOctoguttata.jpg
Buprestis octoguttata
Buprestis rufipes Buprestis rufipes crop.jpg
Buprestis rufipes

Species include: [2]

References

  1. Bellamy, C. L. (2011). A new species of Buprestis Linnaeus, 1758 from Veracruz, Mexico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestini) and a brief discussion of the Mesoamerican species of the subgenus Knulliobuprestis Kurosawa, 1988. Zootaxa 2803 49–56.
  2. Bellamy, C. L. (2013). "Genus Buprestis". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 7 Sep 2021.