Buprestidae
Buprestida is a family of beetles. In English, they are known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles, because of the coloring of their carapace.
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Buprestidae |
The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 recent species in 450 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described.[1]
Buprestidae Media
Oak splendour beetle (Agrilus biguttatus) specimen (Agrilinae)
Eurythyrea austriaca specimen (Buprestinae)
Temognatha alternata, a Buprestinae 2.6cm long from Cooktown, Australia
Capnodis cariosa specimen (Chrysochroinae)
Julodis ehrenbergii specimen from Greece (Julodinae)
Acmaeodera species (Polycestinae)
Unidentified species from Swifts Creek (Victoria, Australia)
Buprestinae (center right and lower left), Julodinae (center) and Polycestinae (others) from Charles Kerremans' Monographie des Buprestides
Dicerca obscura (subfamilia Chrysochroinae), North America
References
- ↑ Akiyama K. & S. Ohmomo 2000. The Buprestid Beetles of the World. Iconographic Series of Insects 4. ISBN 4-943955-04-5