BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815
(jewel beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyBUPRESTIDAE (jewel beetles)
SuperfamilyBUPRESTOIDEA (jewel beetles)
Series Elateriformia (click beetles and relatives)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Bíly, S. 1982 The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 10, 110pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
Levey, B. 1977 Coleoptera: Buprestidae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Pt 1(b), 8pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Prahy, K. Jewel Beetles (Buprestidae) of Prague and its Surroundings volny.cz/midge/buprang/jewelbeetles.htm
Théry, A. 1942 *** Coléoptères Buprestides ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 41, 222pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R. The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects www.ukflymines.co.uk

Leaf-miners

György Csóka 2003 Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners 192pp, Forest Research Institute, Budapest

BUPRESTIDAE (jewel beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for BUPRESTIDAE (jewel beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 26 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for BUPRESTIDAE (jewel beetles)
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