Microcastalia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Buprestoidea

Familia: Buprestidae
Tribus: Bubastini
Genus: Microcastalia

Species: M. globithorax – M. scintillans
Name

Microcastalia Heller, 1891
Type species: Castalia globithorax Thomson, 1878 — fixed by monotypy.

Synonyms

Bubastodes Blackburn, 1892
Type species: Bubastodes sulcicollis Blackburn, 1892 — fixed by monotypy.
Bubastes (Bubastodes): Obenberger, 1920

References
Links

Genus: Bubastodes. coleopsoc.org

Microcastalia is a genus of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are at least two described species in Microcastalia.[1][2]
Species

These two species belong to the genus Microcastalia.[2]

Microcastalia globithorax (Thomson, 1878)
Microcastalia scintillans (Carter, 1924)

References

Bellamy, C. L. (2013). "Genus: Microcastalia". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 7 Sep 2021.

"Browse Microcastalia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

Further reading

Bellamy, C.L. (2008–2009). A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea). Pensoft. ISBN 978-9546423177.
Bellamy, C.L. (2013). "The world of jewel beetles". Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
Bellamy, C.L.; Nelson, G.H. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (ed.). Family 41. Buprestidae Leach, 1815. American Beetles Vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea Through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 98–112. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
Nelson, Gayle H.; Walters Jr., George C. Jr.; Haines, R. Dennis; Bellamy, Charles L. (2008). A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico. Special Publication, no. 4. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0972608787.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.