Biology:Melanophilini

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Short description: Tribe of beetles

Melanophilini
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Melanophila acuminata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Subfamily: Buprestinae
Tribe: Melanophilini
Bedel, 1921

Melanophilini is a tribe of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are at least 4 genera and 20 described species in Melanophilini.[1][2][3]

Phaenops drummondi

Genera

References

Further reading

  • American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.. 2002. 
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.. 
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.. 
  • Bellamy, C.L. (2008–2009). "A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)". Pensoft Series Faunistica 1–5 (76–80). 
  • Nelson, Gayle H.; Walters, George C. Jr.; Haines, R. Dennis; Bellamy, Charles L. (2008). "A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico". The Coleopterists' Society, Special Publication. 

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