Biology:Chalcophora virginiensis
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Short description: Species of beetle
| Chalcophora virginiensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Chalcophora |
| Species: | C. virginiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Chalcophora virginiensis (Drury, 1770)
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Chalcophora virginiensis, the sculptured pine borer, is a metallic woodboring beetle of the Buprestidae family. It is endemic to forested areas in the eastern United States and Canada . Some authors have synonymised it with the western species Chalcophora angulicollis, but Maier and Ivie (2013) demonstrate that the species are distinct.[1]
Habitat and appearance
- Head small and broad. Antennae about the length of the thorax, and small. Thorax broad and rugged, having the elevated parts of a dark coppery colour; but the depressed ones lighter, covered with very small punctures, and joining close to the wing-cases. Scutellum very small and triangular. Elytra of the same colour with the thorax; the dark parts in the figure being those that lie highest. They are margined on the sides and suture, extending even with the anus; which near their edges are slightly serrated. Under side shining and coppery, but on the sides with a tincture of flesh colour. Legs the same; with two tibial spurs. Length, a little more than an inch.[2]
A fuller description is given by Maier & Ivie.[1]
Recorded hosts are the red pine (Pinus resinosa) and white pine (P. strobus).[1] In addition to its native home in North America, specimens have been taken in Europe and Japan , presumably as a result of accidental introduction in transported timber.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Maier, Crystal A.; Ivie, Michael A. (2013). "Reevaluation of Chalcophora angulicollis (Leconte) and Chalcophora virginiensis (Drury) with a Review and Key to the North American species of Chalcophora Dejean (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin 67 (4): 457–469. doi:10.1649/0010-065x-67.4.457. http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2014_maier_c001.pdf. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John. ed. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. 1. p. 61. pl. XXX.
Wikidata ☰ Q14922333 entry
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