Buprestis

Buprestis
Buprestis aurulenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Buprestoidea
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Buprestis
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

78+

Buprestis is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. As of 2011 there were 78 described species distributed across most of the world's ecozones except parts of Africa and Antarctica.[1]

Buprestis dalmatina
Buprestis haemorrhoidalis
Buprestis lineata
Buprestis novemmaculata
Buprestis octoguttata

Species include:[2]

References

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