Belongs within: Elateriformia.
Contains: Chrysochroinae, Julodinae, Buprestinae, Agrilinae, Polycestinae.
The Buprestidae, jewel beetles, are a cosmopolitan family of beetles that are often marked by brilliant, metallic colours. They are typically characterised by a hypognathous head, mostly serrate antennae, a transverse suture across the metasternum, and the first two abdominal sternites connate.
<==Buprestidae [Buprestides, Buprestoidea]MW15 |--+--+--JulodinaeMW15 | | `--BuprestinaeMW15 | `--+--AgrilinaeMW15 | `--PolycestinaeMW15 `--Schizopodinae [Schizopodidae]B85 |--DystaxiniB85 | |--Glyptoscelimorpha Horn 1893B85 | | `--G. (Dystaxiella Knull 1940)NB02 | `--Dystaxia LeConte 1866B85 | `--D. murrayiNB02 `--Schizopus LeConte 1858MW15, NB02 [incl. Yermoella Obenberger 1939B85; Schizopodina, Schizopodini] |--S. laetus LeConte 1858B14 `--S. sallaeiB14 |--S. s. sallaeiB14 `--S. s. nigricansB14 Buprestidae incertae sedis: ChrysochroinaeB14 Galbella Westwood 1848 (see below for synonymy)B85 | i. s.: G. acaciaB14 | G. felix (Marseul 1866)B14 |--G. (Progalbella Bellamy 1985)B85 `--G. (Xenogalbella Bellamy 1985)B85 Cylindromorphinae [Cylindromorphini]B85 |--Heromorphus Obenberger 1916B85 |--Paracylindromorphus Thery 1930 [incl. Agrilomorphus Portevin 1931]B85 |--Cantonius Thery 1929B85 |--Zitella Thery 1954B85 |--Capeneria Cobos 1953 [incl. Zita Thery 1954]B85 |--Franchettia Thery 1954 [incl. Neomorphus Cobos 1953 non Gloger 1827]B85 `--Cylindromorphus Thery 1930B85 |--C. bifrons Rey 1890R90 |--C. filumR90 |--C. gallicusR90 |--C. parallelusR90 `--C. strigatulus Rey 1890R90
Galbella Westwood 1848 [incl. Janthe Marseul 1865 non Grisebach 1844 (ICBN), Oncomaea Saunders 1867, Sponsorinus Fairmaire 1900; Galbellinae]B85
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B85] Bellamy, C. L. 1985. A catalogue of the higher taxa of the family Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein 4 (15): 405–472.
[B14] Bouchard, P. (ed.) 2014. The Book of Beetles: A lifesize guide to six hundred of nature’s gems. Ivy Press: Lewes (United Kingdom).
[MW15] McKenna, D. D., A. L. Wild, K. Kanda, C. L. Bellamy, R. G. Beutel, M. S. Caterino, C. W. Farnum, D. C. Hawks, M. A. Ivie, M. L. Jameson, R. A. B. Leschen, A. E. Marvaldi, J. V. McHugh, A. F. Newton, J. A. Robertson, M. K. Thayer, M. F. Whiting, J. F. Lawrence, A. Ślipiński, D. R. Maddison & B. D. Farrell. 2015. The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Systematic Entomology 40 (4): 835–880.
[NB02] Nelson, G. H., & C. L. Bellamy. 2002. Schizopodidae LeConte 1861. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J. H. Frank (eds) American Beetles vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea pp. 95–97. CRC Press.
[R90] Rey, C. 1890. Description de deux espèces nouvelles ou peu connues de buprestides du genre Cylindromorphus. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6e série 9: clx–clxii.