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Agrilus

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Agrilus
Agrilus cephalicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Subfamily: Agrilinae
Tribe: Agrilini
Subtribe: Agrilina
Genus: Agrilus
Curtis, 1825
Type species
Buprestis viridis
Diversity
2,877+ species[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Teres Harris, 1830
  • Euryotes Dejean, 1836
  • Paradomorphus Waterhouse, 1887
  • Samboides Kerremans, 1900
  • Callichitones Obenberger, 1931
  • 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] The best known species is the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), a serious pest of ash trees, with other notable species including Agrilus biguttatus and Agrilus auroguttatus, which are pests of oak trees.

Agrilus ambiguus
Agrilus alesi
Agrilus ater
Agrilus aureus
Agrilus auriventris
Agrilus auroapicalis
Agrilus biguttatus on a stump of a tree
Agrilus celebicola lectotype.
Agrilus connexus holotype.
Agrilus crepuscularis holotype.
Agrilus diversornatus holotype
Agrilus evinadus lectotype.
Agrilus horni lectotype.
Agrilus horniellus
Agrilus inamoenus
Agrilus korenskyi lectotype.
Agrilus kurandae lectotype.
Agrilus laurenconi holotype.
Agrilus marmoreus lectotype.
Agrilus mucidus holotype.
Agrilus nebulosus.
Agrilus nitidus lectotype.
Agrilus oblatus lectotype
Agrilus perroti
Agrilus picturatus holotype.
Agrilus planipennis
Agrilus pluvius holotype.
Agrilus pseudoambiguus holotype.
Agrilus samoensis holotype.
Agrilus sordidulus
Agrilus tesselatus holotype.
Agrilus trepanatus holotype.
Agrilus umrongso holotype.
Agrilus viridis
Agrilus zanthoxylumi

Species

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Fossil taxa

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Four fossil taxa have been described:[6]

References

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  1. ^ New Pest Report: A. coxalis Archived February 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Bellamy, C. L. "Genus Agrilus Curtis 1825". The World of Jewel Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The Coleopterists Society. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ Bellamy, C. L. (2010). "Genus Agrilus". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 10 Jun 2011.
  4. ^ Jendek, Eduard; Poláková, Janka (2014), "Host Plants of Agrilus", Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3–7, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08410-7_2, ISBN 978-3-319-08409-1, retrieved 2024-11-21
  5. ^ Jendek, Eduard; Poláková, Janka (2014), "Analysis", Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 515–601, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08410-7_6, ISBN 978-3-319-08409-1, retrieved 2024-11-21
  6. ^ "Agrilus Curtis 1825 (jewel beetle)". The Paleobiology Database.
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