Cedar Creek Natural History Area

Insects of Cedar Creek

Order COLEOPTERA

BUPRESTINAE
Members of this subfamily are your typical large metallic woodland borers.  Species collected include: Dicerca (4 spp--divaricata, callosa, tenebrosa, tuberculata??)Buprestis (2+spp--consularis, maculativentris), Chrysobothris (5 spp--rugociceps, sexsignata, dentipes, scabripennis, trinervia??).  All are woodland species associated with various hardwoods or conifers. (See Species Table). Melanophila drummondi and Anthaxia aeneogaster are smaller dark brown species found on Marsh Marigold in early spring.  They attack tamarack (Larix laricina) in the surrounding swamp.

ACMAEODERINAE
Achmaeodera pulchella is a conspicuous but infrequently collected brown and yellow species found on Rudbeckia and other composites in mid-summer.

AGRILINAE
Slender species primarily associated with woodland include the large genus Agrilus (ca 15 spp incl. anxius, bilineatus, crinicornis, egenus, obsoletoguttatus, putillus, quadriguttatus, quadriimpressus, rubicola, ruficollis, vittaticollis). Consult Species Table for host preference. A. rubicola is common on Rubus in ecotonal regions.  Eupristocerus cogitans is a slender black and red species found on alders in swampland.
Pachyschelus laevigatus (host Lespedeza) and Pachyschelus confusus (host Desmodium) are the most common species collected in old fields.  Brachys (3 spp--ovatus, aerosus, aeruginosus) are leaf miners on oak. These two genera are small and broad Leaf Miners. Taphrocerus 2 spp. have only been collected from a few fields.