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A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea)  

 
The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan Obenberger's six fascicle (1926-1937) contribution to the Horn & Schenkling Coleopterorum Catalogus. Published in five volumes (3125 pages in total), this catalogue presents a full taxonomic history for all taxa, including fossils, along with distribution and type repository data. The catalogue follows the evolving modern classification which, for Buprestidae, employs six subfamilies, 47 tribes, 39 non-nominate subtribes, 513 genera and more than 14700 valid species. In addition, the first large bibliography on the subject concludes the catalogue with more than 8000 citations.
  

Prologue - here
Epilogue - here
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Bellamy, C.L. 2008. A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 1: Introduction; Fossil Taxa; Schizopodidae; Buprestidae: Julodinae - Chrysochroinae: Poecilonotini. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 76, pp. 1-625.

In Volume 1, a 20 page Introduction provides definition, structure and acknowledgment. The catalogue begins with a listing of fossil jewel beetles before commencing with the extant taxa. The small Schizopodidae come before the Buprestidae, which includes the subfamilies Julodinae, Polycestinae (including the first of the six large genera: Acmaeodera), Galbellinae and the first part of Chrysochroinae.


 
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Bellamy, C.L. 2008. A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 2: Chrysochroinae: Sphenopterini through Buprestinae: Stigmoderini. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 77, pp. 626-1259.

Volume 2 contains the remainder of Chrysochroinae and the first part of Buprestinae and includes the second and third large genera (Sphenoptera) and (Castiarina).
 
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Bellamy, C.L. 2008. A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 3: Buprestinae: Pterobothrini through Agrilinae: Rhaeboscelina. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 78, pp. 1260-1931.

Volume 3 includes the conclusion of Buprestinae (including the large genera Anthaxia and Chrysobothris) and the majority of the non-Agrilus Agrilinae.






 
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Bellamy, C.L. 2008. A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 4: Agrilinae: Agrilina through Trachyini. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 79, pp. 1932-2684.

Volume 4 includes the remainder of Agrilinae (including the enormous genus Agrilus) through to the end of the family with the likely paraphyletic Trachyini, the leaf-miners, still grouped together.





 
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Bellamy, C.L. 2009. A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 5: Appendices, Bibliography, Indices. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 80, pp. 2685-3264.

This final volume contains the appendices, including listings of missing or invalid taxa, indices to significant past jewel beetle catalogues or checklists, a table listing each genus and the breakdown of the respective species-group taxa (species, subspecies, synonyms and invalid names), the Bibliography, the three Indices (family, genus and species-group names), a list of errors from the first four volumes, a list of taxa or taxonomic acts published after Volume 1 appeared and an Epilogue.