Microcastalia
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Microcastalia is a genus of metallic wood-boring beetles in the family Buprestidae. There are at least two described species in Microcastalia.{{cite web |url=https://cerambycids.com/Buprestidae/WorldCat/Genera/Microcastalia.htm |title=Genus Microcastalia |author=Bellamy, C. L. |date=2013 |work=A Checklist of World Buprestoidea |accessdate=7 Sep 2021}}
{{Cite web| title=Browse Microcastalia
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/1b9748da93a69bf87e741ca60924d2ae
| website=Catalogue of Life
| accessdate=2018-03-04
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Species
These two species belong to the genus Microcastalia.
- Microcastalia globithorax (Thomson, 1878)
- Microcastalia scintillans (Carter, 1924)
References
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Bellamy | first1 = C.L.
| date = 2008–2009
| title = A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)
| publisher = Pensoft
| isbn = 978-9546423177
}}
- {{Cite web
| accessdate = 2018-03-04
| last1 = Bellamy
| first1 = C.L.
| date = 2013
| title = The world of jewel beetles
| url = http://coleopsoc.org/buprestidae/WorldCat/Classif/webcat.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180320113639/http://www.coleopsoc.org/Buprestidae/WorldCat/Classif/webcat.html
| archive-date = 2018-03-20
| url-status = dead
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Bellamy | first1 = C.L.
| last2 = Nelson | first2 = G.H.
| editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = Ross H. Jr.
| date = 2002
| title = Family 41. Buprestidae Leach, 1815
| journal = American Beetles Vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea Through Curculionoidea
| publisher = CRC Press
| pages = 98–112
| isbn = 0-8493-0954-9
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Blatchley | first1 = W.S.
| date = 1910
| title = An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up
| publisher = Nature Pub.
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = LeConte | first1 = J.L.
| date = 1861
| title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732
| journal = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections |volume=3 |issue=136
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution
| isbn = 0665100558
| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459
| doi-access = free
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Nelson | first1 = Gayle H.
| last2 = Walters Jr. | first2 = George C. Jr.
| last3 = Haines | first3 = R. Dennis
| last4 = Bellamy | first4 = Charles L.
| date = 2008
| title = A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico
| publisher = The Coleopterists' Society
| volume = Special Publication, no. 4
| isbn = 978-0972608787
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = White
| first1 = Richard E.
| date = 1998
| orig-date = 1983
| title = A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides)
| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
| isbn = 0395910897
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894
}}
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