FAMILYBUPRESTIDAE

Peck, Stewart B., 2016, The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2016 (460), pp. 1-360 : 97

51. FAMILYBUPRESTIDAE , the metallic woodboring beetles

Adults of this family are very active flyers. They can be found feeding on leaves, pollen, petals and on nectar of flowers. The larvae bore in both living and dead plant tissue of leaves, under bark, in twigs, in roots of trees and shrubs, and stems of herbaceous plants. Fisher (1925) is an early review of the West Indies fauna, with keys to species. The higher classification here follows that of Bellamy (2003). Bellamy (2008) is an online list of West Indian Buprestidae . Bellamy (2008-2009) is a world catalog of the family, with distributional data, but it does not indicate individual island records.