Coleoptera: Buprestidae - Emerald Ash Borer

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IntroductionThe adult stage of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is fairly distinctiveand usually easy to tell apart from most similarly colored and shapedbuprestids and other insects by a trained taxonomist. However, manyresearchers and field workers currently sampling for EAB are nottrained taxonomists, and might confuse some other similarly shapedor colored insects with EAB. The species included in this guide werechosen because of their relative commonness, similarity in size,shape and/or coloration to the EAB, and because specimens wereavailable for photography in the A.J. Cook Arthropod ResearchCollection, at Michigan State University. Additional species, notincluded here, may be present in other parts of North America thatcould also potentially be confused with the EAB.
How to Use This GuideThis guide is intended to assist insect diagnosticians and otherswho have some familiarity in identifying insects. It’s use will beeasier if the user has at least a basic knowledge of insectmorphology and terminology and a basic familiarity with insectorders, families, and genera.
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Page 8 and 9: Family: Buprestidae “metallic woo
Page 10 and 11: Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire“eme
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Page 18 and 19: Other species of AgrilusFollowing a
Page 20 and 21: Agrilus species similar in size to
Page 22 and 23: Agrilus anxius Gory“bronze birch
Page 24 and 25: Agrilus bilineatus (Weber)“two-li
Page 26 and 27: Agrilus liragus Barter & Brown“br
Page 28 and 29: Agrilus nigricans Gory• Length: 7
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Page 32 and 33: Agrilus crataegi Frost• Length: 6
Page 34 and 35: Agrilus cyanescens (Ratzeburg)• L
Page 36 and 37: Agrilus masculinus Horn• Length:
Page 38 and 39: Agrilus politus (Say)• Length: 4.
Page 40 and 41: Agrilus sapindi Knull• Length: 8.
Page 42 and 43: Some additional species compared to
Page 44 and 45: Anthaxia deleta LeConte• Length:
Page 46 and 47: Chrysophana placida (LeConte)• Le
Page 48 and 49: Buprestis salisburyensis Herbst•
Page 50 and 51: Cypriacis fasciatus (Fabricius)•
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Cypriacis striata (Fabricius)• Le
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Family: Elateridae “click beetles
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References• Bright, D. 1987. The
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