Buprestidae

Jewel Beetle from Ch Kerremans 1903 in Wytsman P. - Genera Insectorum XII.V.

Jewel beetles ( Buprestidae ) form a widespread especially in the tropics family of beetles. With about 15,000 species and 450 genera they represent one of the eight largest beetle families

Survey

Jewel beetles are 2-80 mm long and often have a colorful, metallic luster. The head is deeply retracted into the prothorax, the eyes are relatively large, the probe penetrated and short. They resemble the body shape after the click beetles ( Elateridae ), but they lack the typical for this jump apparatus. Because of their appearance, the dazzlingly colorful jewel beetles that are targeted for insect collections. Most of the species included in their hemolymph the Bittern Buprestin (a series of Acylglucosiden ) against predators.

The genesis of the jewel beetle goes back very far. There are known fossils from the Triassic period. A variety of species is heat -loving. That is why they are represented in Central Europe with only about 100 species and live mainly in heat- favored regions and habitats. A large share of domestic in our latitudes species is already extinct or endangered in its existence. This is due not only to the destruction of their habitats, but eg also due to their popularity with collectors, to mass mortality by attracting to inadequate sources of stimulation and the like.

Both larvae and imagos are phytophagous ( herbivorous ). They feed on the wood, the bark or the leaves of their host plants. The larvae bore tortuosity, widening aisles, which are filled with the debris. They have a very large relative to the narrow and long legless body head, this is actually the prothorax strongly broadened, the appending of the small head forward.

The beetles feed on pollen, petals (especially of yellow flowers ) and leaves or needles. Some species are considered because of their destructive effect on trees and plants as pests.

The jewel beetles have a complicated family structure with several sub-families and numerous genera, reflecting the different self- development. The most species-rich genera of the family of jewel beetles are Agrilus Anthaxia and Acmaeodera that occur (with about 3000 species it is the largest genus in the animal kingdom ) and Chrysobothris, which can be found global, everywhere except in Australia, and Sphenoptera, with more than 1100 species in the Palearctic, in tropical Africa and the Orient lives.

Taxonomy and species ( selection)

Subfamily Agrilinae genus Agrilus Poplar borer ( Agrilus ater)
Small linden borer ( Agrilus auricollis auricollis )
Two Punk Tiger oak borer ( Agrilus biguttatus )
Edged narrow borer ( Agrilus cinctus )
Blue narrow borer ( Agrilus delphinensis )
Vine - borer ( Strong Hairy narrow jewel beetles ) ( Agrilus derasofasciatus )
Haarstirniger narrow borer ( Agrilus graminis )
Guerin narrow borer ( Agrilus guerini )
St. John's narrow borer ( Agrilus hyperici )
Daphne - borer ( Agrilus integerrimus )
Currant narrow borer ( Agrilus ribesi )
Acute-angled narrow borer ( Agrilus salicis )
Birnprachtkäfer, flash worm or fruit tree borer ( Agrilus sinuatus )
Gold Green narrow borer ( Agrilus subauratus )
Suvorovs narrow borer ( Agrilus suvorovi )
Blue-green narrow borer ( Agrilus viridicoerulans rubi )
Book jewel beetles or hardwood borer ( Agrilus viridis)

Erzgrüner furrows forehead jewel beetles ( Aphanisticus elongatus )
Shiny Black furrows forehead jewel beetles ( Aphanisticus emarginatus )

Green metal Filzfußprachtkäfer ( Coraebus elatus )
Florentine jewel beetles or two Bindiger oak splendor beetle ( Coraebus florentinus )
Wave Bindiger oak splendor beetle ( Coraebus undatus )

Black Green rolling jewel beetles ( Cylindromorphus filum )

Großschildiger small jewel beetle ( Habroloma geranii )

Strawberry small jewel beetle ( trachys fragariae )
Common dwarf jewel beetles ( trachys minutus)
Goldhalsiger small jewel beetle ( trachys troglodytiformis )

Subfamily Buprestinae genus Anthaxia Cherry jewel beetles or Colorful cherry jewel beetle ( Anthaxia candens )
Chicory Eckschildprachtkäfer ( Anthaxia cichorii )
Spotted-necked - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia fulgurans )
Swiss jewel beetle ( Anthaxia helvetica )
Hungarian jewel beetle ( Anthaxia hungarica )
Little Elm borer ( Anthaxia manca )
Mendizabals corner signboard - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia mendizabali )
Yarrow Eckschildprachtkäfer ( Anthaxia millefolii )
White Haired corner signboard - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia morio )
Black Brushed corner signboard - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia nigrojubata )
Shining flower jewel beetles or Delicate jewel beetle ( Anthaxia nitidula )
Rosthörniger corner signboard - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia podolica )
Four Punk Tiger pine jewel beetle ( Anthaxia quadripunctata )
Willow borer ( Anthaxia salicis )
Brown Haired corner signboard - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia sepulchralis )
Halbkupferiger corner signboard - jewel beetle ( Anthaxia suzannae )

Neunfleckiger jewel beetles or spotted softwood borer ( Buprestis novemmaculata )
Night Punk Tiger pine borer ( Buprestis octoguttata )
Goldstreifiger jewel beetles ( Buprestis splendens)

Bonanza oak splendor beetle or Bonanza jewel beetles ( Chrysobothris affinis )
Wrinkled thorn breast jewel beetles ( Chrysobothris chrysostigma )
Gold Dotted pine borer ( Chrysobothris Solieri )

Green Shiny gloss jewel beetles ( Eurythyrea austriaca )
Eckschildiger gloss jewel beetles or Gold Green oak splendor beetle ( Eurythyrea quercus )

Black pine borer ( Melanophila acuminata )

Blue pine borer ( Phaenops cyanea )

Subfamily Chrysochroinae genus Capnodis Peach borer or Black fruit tree borer ( Capnodis Tenebrionis )

Marie jewel beetles or Big Pine borer ( Chalcophora mariana )

Jewelry jewel beetles ( Chrysochroa buqueti )

Gelbstreifiger tooth Wing jewel beetles ( Dicerca Aenea )
Large alder borer ( Dicerca alni )
Berlin jewel beetles or Eckfleckiger tooth Wing jewel beetles ( Dicerca berolinensis )
Large birch borer or Scharfzähniger tooth Wing jewel beetles ( Dicerca furcata )
Linienhalsiger tooth Wing jewel beetles ( Dicerca Moesta )