| Agrilus | |
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| Agrilus cephalicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Subfamily: | Agrilinae |
| Tribe: | Agrilini |
| Subtribe: | Agrilina |
| Genus: | Agrilus Curtis, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Buprestis viridis | |
| Diversity | |
| 2,877+ species[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Agrilus is a genus of jewel beetles, notable for having the largest number of species (about 3000) of any single genus in the animal kingdom.[3] Species of the genus have a cosmopolitan distribution on all continents except Antarctica,[4] and feed on a wide variety of flowering plant hosts.[5] The best known species is the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), a serious pest of ash trees, with other notable species including Agrilus biguttatus and Agrilus auroguttatus, which are pests of oak trees.
- ^ New Pest Report: A. coxalis Archived February 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bellamy, C. L. "Genus Agrilus Curtis 1825". The World of Jewel Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The Coleopterists Society. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ Bellamy, C. L. (2010). "Genus Agrilus". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 10 Jun 2011.
- ^ Jendek, Eduard; Poláková, Janka (2014), "Host Plants of Agrilus", Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3–7, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08410-7_2, ISBN 978-3-319-08409-1, retrieved 2024-11-21
- ^ Jendek, Eduard; Poláková, Janka (2014), "Analysis", Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 515–601, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08410-7_6, ISBN 978-3-319-08409-1, retrieved 2024-11-21