Chalcophora virginiensis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Buprestoidea

Familia: Buprestidae
Subfamilia: Chrysochroinae
Tribus: Chrysochroini
Subtribus: Chalcophorina
Genus: Chalcophora
Species: Chalcophora virginiensis

Chalcophora virginiensis, the sculptured pine borer, is a metallic woodboring beetle of the Buprestidae family. It is endemic to forested areas in the eastern United States and Canada. Some authors have synonymised it with the western species Chalcophora angulicollis, but Maier and Ivie (2013) demonstrate that the species are distinct.[1]
Habitat and appearance

Head small and broad. Antennae about the length of the thorax, and small. Thorax broad and rugged, having the elevated parts of a dark coppery colour; but the depressed ones lighter, covered with very small punctures, and joining close to the wing-cases. Scutellum very small and triangular. Elytra of the same colour with the thorax; the dark parts in the figure being those that lie highest. They are margined on the sides and suture, extending even with the anus; which near their edges are slightly serrated. Under side shining and coppery, but on the sides with a tincture of flesh colour. Legs the same; with two tibial spurs. Length, a little more than an inch.[2]

A fuller description is given by Maier & Ivie.[1]

Recorded hosts are the red pine (Pinus resinosa) and white pine (P. strobus).[1] In addition to its native home in North America, specimens have been taken in Europe and Japan, presumably as a result of accidental introduction in transported timber.[1]
See also

Woodboring beetle

References

Maier, Crystal A.; Ivie, Michael A. (2013). "Reevaluation of Chalcophora angulicollis (Leconte) and Chalcophora virginiensis (Drury) with a Review and Key to the North American species of Chalcophora Dejean (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)" (PDF). The Coleopterists Bulletin. 67 (4): 457–469. doi:10.1649/0010-065x-67.4.457. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John (ed.). Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. Vol. 1. p. 61. pl. XXX.