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Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. With the name based on the Asian genus Scutellera, they are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the thoracic scutellum into a continuous shield over the abdomen and wings. [1]
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described.
Agrilus feretrius Obenberger. Agrilus marcopoli Obenberger[1] The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), also known by the acronym EAB, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species (Fraxinus spp.). Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to ...
Jewel beetles in the Akiyamaia subgenus are generally “rare” and “difficult to collect,” researchers said. A Buprestis (Akiyamaia) gengmini, or Geng-Min’s jewel beetle, on a twig.
Agrilus pannonicus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) Agrilus biguttatus laying eggs. Agrilus biguttatus is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. Common names include oak splendour beetle, oak buprestid beetle, and two-spotted oak borer. [1] This beetle is known as a pest that causes damage to oak trees and is a major ...
Therysambus Descarpentries, & Villiers, 1967. Agrilus is a genus of jewel beetles, notable for having the largest number of species (about 3000) of any single genus in the animal kingdom. [3] Species of the genus have a cosmopolitan distribution on all continents except Antarctica, [4] and feed on a wide variety of flowering plant hosts. [5]
Buprestis aurulenta, commonly known as the golden jewel beetle[1] or golden buprestid, is a species of beetle in the genus Buprestis. [2] The larvae of Buprestis aurulenta live inside a variety of coniferous trees and can survive for long periods in dry wood. [3] The adult beetle is an iridescent green, with shining orange trim all around the ...
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera. As hemipterans, they possess a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. [1] The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (16 extant and 5 extinct). [2][3] Among these are the stink bugs and shield bugs, jewel bugs ...