Texania campestris

Texania campestris is a species in the family Buprestidae ("metallic wood-boring beetles"), in the suborder Polyphaga ("water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles").[1][2] The species is known generally as the "hardwood heartwood buprestid".[3] It is found in North America.[2]

Texania campestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Buprestoidea
Family:
Buprestidae
Subfamily:
Chrysochroinae
Tribe:
Chrysochroini
Genus:
Texania
Species:
T. campestris
Binomial name
Texania campestris
(Say, 1823)

References
  1. "Texania campestris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. "Texania campestris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  3. "Texania campestris Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 21 January 2018.

Further reading
  • "A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America north of Mexico", Nelson et al. 2008. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4. 274 pp.
  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Bellamy, C.L. (2008-2009). A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volumes 1-5. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 76-80.
  • Nelson, Gayle H., George C. Walters Jr., R. Dennis Haines, and Charles L. Bellamy (2008). "A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico". The Coleopterists' Society, Special Publication, no. 4, iv + 274.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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