Chrysobothrini is a tribe of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are at least 3 genera and 140 described species in Chrysobothrini.[1][2]

Chrysobothrini
Chrysobothris acutipennis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Subfamily: Buprestinae
Tribe: Chrysobothrini
Gory & Laporte, 1838
Chrysobothris verdigripennis

Genera edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Chrysobothrini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Chrysobothrini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  • Bellamy, C. L., and G. H. Nelson / Arnett, Ross H. Jr. et al., eds. (2002). "Family 41. Buprestidae Leach, 1815". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 98–112.
  • Bellamy, C.L. (2008-2009). A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volumes 1-5. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 76-80.
  • Nelson, Gayle H., George C. Walters Jr., R. Dennis Haines, and Charles L. Bellamy (2008). "A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico". The Coleopterists' Society, Special Publication, no. 4, iv + 274.

Further reading edit

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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