Buprestis

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Buprestis
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Buprestis aurulenta
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
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]

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.
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