Coleoptera: Buprestidae - Emerald Ash Borer

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Family: Elateridae “click beetles”Ctenicera resplendens (Eschscholtz)• Length: 10-15 mm, slightly larger than EAB.• Color bright green with brassy and copperyreflections.• Pronotum “hinged” to mesothorax withventral click mechanism, and hind anglesprolonged backward as sharp spines(all ABSENT in EAB).• Hosts: unknown, but other elaterids feed onherbaceous plant roots, in rotting wood orare predators.resplendensEABresplendensprothorax hingedto mesothorax,hind anglesprolonged asspines?
Family: Trogossitidae “bark-gnawing beetles”Temnoscheila virescens (Fabricius)• Length: 8.6-17.8 mm, slightly larger than EAB.• Color bright green or blue-green varying to almostdark purplish-blue, often with brassy reflections.• Head large, prognathous, and more evident thanin <strong>Buprestidae</strong>, and the connection of thepronotum to mesothorax is narrowed, waist-like.• T. virescens occurs in the eastern U.S. with T.chlorodia (Mannerhiem), a very similar species,occurring in the western North America. Bothspecies are predators found under the bark ofdead trees where they feed on a variety of woodboringbeetles.virescenspronotumconnected tomesothorax bya narrow waistvirescensEABT. chlorodiaT. virescens
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Page 10 and 11: Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire“eme
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Page 22 and 23: Agrilus anxius Gory“bronze birch
Page 24 and 25: Agrilus bilineatus (Weber)“two-li
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Page 28 and 29: Agrilus nigricans Gory• Length: 7
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Page 32 and 33: Agrilus crataegi Frost• Length: 6
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Page 38 and 39: Agrilus politus (Say)• Length: 4.
Page 40 and 41: Agrilus sapindi Knull• Length: 8.
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Page 44 and 45: Anthaxia deleta LeConte• Length:
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Page 48 and 49: Buprestis salisburyensis Herbst•
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Page 56: References• Bright, D. 1987. The
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