BUPRESTIDAE Author: John F. Lawrence, 2001. Classification Suborder Polyphaga, Series Elateriformia, Superfamily Buprestoidea. Description Antenae with 11 segments, serrate or rarely pectinate. Antennal insertions exposed or concealed. Visible portion of procoxa globular with the trochantin at least partly exposed. Procoxal cavity externally open and internally open. Mesocoxae separated by more than 1 coxal width, with mesocoxal cavity laterally open. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Numberof ventrites 5 with 2 connate. Body length 1.5-60 mm. Body variable, short and broad to elongate and narrow, strongly convex to flattened. Tarsi with lobes on 1-4. Head globular, declined with relatively large, vertical, finely facetted eyes. Transverse suture on metaventrite. Quick identification Buprestidae are very distinctive beetles which are rarely mistaken for anything else. Those shown on the first 4 slides are all Agrilinae, which are the most likely buprestids to be misidentified. There is a large suite of characters varying little in the group and useful for identification. Some of these are the short, hypognathous head with vertically oval, finely facetted eyes, slender, more or less serrate antennae, broad prosternal process fitting into a large mesoventral cavity, well-defined transverse metaventral suture and solidly fused ventrites 1 and 2. Genera occurring in Costa Rica Polycestinae: Acherusia, Acmaeodera, Micrasta, Mastogenius, Polycesta. Buprestinae: Actenodes, Agrilaxia, Buprestis, Chrysesthes, Chrysobothris, Cinyra, Colobogaster, Conognatha, Euchroma, Eudiana, Euplectalecia, Halecia, Hiperantha, Hippomelas, Lampetis, Mixochlorus, Pelecopselaphus, Spectralia, Tetragonoschema. Agrilinae: Agrilodia, Agrilus, Amorphosoma, Brachys, Callimicra, Dismorpha (= Stenogaster), Leiopleura, Lius, Neotrachys, Omochryseus, Pachyschelus, Paragrilus, Pillotrulleum, Sambomorpha, Taphrocerus, Trypantius. © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Agrilinae (Pachyschelus) © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Agrilinae (Agrilus) © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Agrilinae (Amorphosoma) © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Agrilinae (Leiopleura) © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Buprestinae (Acmaeodera) © CSIRO Emtomology, 1999 Buprestid head Ventral surface Derechos Reservados INBio. Copyrights INBio