Spectralia gracilipes (Melsheimer, 1845)

Carlton, Christopher E., MacRae, Ted C., Tishechkin, Alexey K., Bayless, Victoria L. & Johnson, Wood, 2018, Annotated Checklist of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from Louisiana, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (2), pp. 351-367 : 358

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-72.2.351

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scientific name

Spectralia gracilipes (Melsheimer, 1845)
status

 

49. Spectralia gracilipes (Melsheimer, 1845) View in CoL

Parish records (n = 19): Concordia, East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, and Winn Parishes (LSAM).

Potential larval hosts in Louisiana: Fraxinus sp. , Ostrya virginiana , Quercus alba , Quercus macrocarpa , and Quercus stellata . Adults reported also on Celtis sp. and Crataegus sp.

Collection date range: 4 May–3 August, mostly in May (n = 8). Seven reared specimens emerged in May.

Comments: Collected by hand, using canopy Malaise traps, and by rearing from unspecified coarse, woody debris; also as C. fumipennis prey.

Tribe Chrysobothrini

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Spectralia

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