Biology:Melanophila acuminata
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Short description: Species of beetle
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Melanophila |
| Species: | M. acuminata
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanophila acuminata (De Geer, 1774)
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Melanophila acuminata, known generally as the black fire beetle or fire bug, is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), Central America, North America, and Southern Asia.[1][2][3] They get their common name due to the fact that they swarm freshly burned conifer trees, which they find using sensors on their thorax. Adults are black and 7–11 mm in length.[4]
It has been suggested that that fly is the pyrotocon, an insect said to be born from fire, of the Natural history by Pliny the Elder.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Melanophila acuminata Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=809198.
- ↑ "Melanophila acuminata". https://www.gbif.org/species/4431503.
- ↑ "Melanophila acuminata species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/457998.
- ↑ Will, Kip; Gross, Joyce; Rubinoff, Daniel; Powell, Jerry A. (2020). Field Guide to California Insects. Oakland, California: University of California Press. pp. 219. ISBN 9780520288744.
- ↑ "Le "pyrotocon" de Pline l'Ancien" by Emile Janssens, Latomus, T. 9, Fasc. 3, 1950, pp. 283–286.
Further reading
- Bellamy, C.L. (2013). "The world of jewel beetles". http://cerambycids.com/buprestidae/.
- Nelson, Gayle H.; Walters Jr., George C. Jr.; Haines, R. Dennis; Bellamy, Charles L. (2008). A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico. Special Publication No. 4. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0972608787.
- Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. 2006. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2254010 entry
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