Dicerca pugionata

Dicerca pugionata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Dicerca
Species: D. pugionata
Binomial name
Dicerca pugionata
(Germar, 1824)

Dicerca pugionata is a species of buprestid beetle from the Chrysochroinae subfamily that occurs in the Eastern North America.[1] Its food includes witch-hazel species including Hamamelis virginiana in mid July.[2] It also feeds on ninebark and alder species.[3]

References

  1. Solomon, J.D. (1995). Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs (PDF). Washington, D.C.: USDA Forest Service. p. 279.
  2. Henry Skinner (1919). "Entomological News". 30-31.
  3. G. H. Nelson (1975). "A revision of the genus Dicerca in North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)" (PDF). Ent. Arb. Mus. Kansas City: 88.

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