Sternocera

Sternocera

Sternocera hunteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Buprestidae
Subfamily:	Julodinae
Genus:	Sternocera Eschscholtz, 1829
Species
See text

Sternocera is a genus of beetles belonging to the Buprestidae family.

Characteristics

There are 26 species in this genus.^[1] Some species—S. aequisignata and S. aurosignata—are used for beetlewing craft because of their iridescent wings.

Species

Sternocera aequisignata Saunders, 1866
Sternocera aurosignata Thomson, 1878
Sternocera cariosicollis Fairmaire, 1884
Sternocera castanea (Olivier, 1790)
Sternocera chrysis (Fabricius, 1775)
Sternocera dasypleuros Kollar, 1848
Sternocera diardii Gory, 1840
Sternocera discedens Kolbe, 1901
Sternocera duvivieri Kerremans, 1898
Sternocera feldspathica White, 1843
Sternocera foveopubens Fairmaire, 1884
Sternocera funebris Boheman, 1860
Sternocera hildebrandti Harold, 1878
Sternocera hunteri Waterhouse, 1889

Sternocera interrupta (Olivier, 1790)
Sternocera iris Harold, 1878
Sternocera klugii Thomson, 1859
Sternocera laevigata (Olivier, 1790)
Sternocera marseuli Obenberger, 1923
Sternocera multipunctata Saunders, 1869
Sternocera ngorongorensis Holm & Gussmann, 1992
Sternocera orissa Buquet, 1837
Sternocera pulchra Waterhouse, 1879
Sternocera ruficornis Saunders, 1866
Sternocera sternicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sternocera syriaca Saunders, 1874
Sternocera tricolor Kerremans, 1886

Gallery

Sternocera aequisignata, mounted specimen at National Museum (Prague)
Sternocera castanea boucardii
Sternocera castanea boucardii, mounted specimen at National Museum (Prague)
Sternocera chrysis, mounted specimen at National Museum (Prague)
Sternocera chrysis chrysidoides from India - mounted specimen
Sternocera sternicornis, from Bengal - mounted specimen
Sternocera sternicornis orientalis from India

References

↑ Bellamy, C. L. (2010). "Genus Schizopodidae". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 22 Jun 2011.

External links

Media related to Sternocera at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Sternocera at Wikispecies
African Sternocera
Asian Sternocera
Revision of the African Sternocera - Holm & Gussmann (1992)

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