Stigmodera

Stigmodera
Stigmodera cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Buprestoidea
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Stigmodera
Eschscholtz, 1829

Stigmodera is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. It is a large genus that some authors divide into three separate genera. Others keep them together, making Stigmodera a genus of some 550 species. Most are native to Australia and a few occur in New Guinea.[1]

Species include:[2]

References

  1. Hołyński, R. B. (2008). A new species of New Guinean Stigmodera Esch. and remarks on Pseudhyperantha Snd. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Opole Scientific Society Nature Journal 41 43-48.
  2. Bellamy, C. L. (2010). "Genus Stigmodera". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 20 Jun 2011.

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