Buprestis apricans, the turpentine borer, is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae.[1][2][3] It is found in the Caribbean and North America.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Buprestis |
| Species: | B. apricans
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| Binomial name | |
| Buprestis apricans Herbst, 1801
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References
edit- ^ "Buprestis apricans Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Buprestis apricans Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Buprestis apricans Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; M. C. Thomas; P. E. Skelley; J. H. Frank, eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Nelson, Gayle H.; George C. Walters Jr.; R. Dennis Haines & Charles L. Bellamy (2008). "A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico". The Coleopterists' Society, Special Publication.
- Bellamy, C.L. (2008–2009). "A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volumes 1-5". Pensoft Series Faunistica. 76–80.
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