Chrysina woodi, or Wood's jewel scarab, is a species of shining leaf chafer in the family of beetles known as Scarabaeidae. This bright green beetle is native to Chihuahua in Mexico, and New Mexico and Texas in the United States. This beetle is long and it resembles C. beyeri, but that species has all blue-purple legs and tarsi (in C. woodi, the legs are green and the tarsi blue).
The name was first published in the minutes of a meeting in 1884 as woodi,Horn, G.H. (1884) Vice-Director Dr. Horn in the chair. Proceedings of the Monthly Meetings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (November 9, 1883): 31–32. in advance of the formal description of the species as woodii in 1885,Horn, G.H. (1885) Descriptions of new North American Scarabaeidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 12: 117–128. https://doi.org/10.2307/25076453 but under ICZN Article 50.2, the 1884 name and spelling take precedence.ICZN OnlineM.R. Moore, M.L. Jameson, B.H. Garner, C. Audibert, A.B.T. Smith, M. Seidel (2017) Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies. ZooKeys 666: 1–349. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.666.9191
Adults of this species have been documented feeding mostly on Texas black walnut (Juglans microcarpa),Tirmenstein, D. A. 1990. Juglans microcarpa. In: Fire Effects Information System, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/ [2017, July 13]. but they have also been reported to feed on a small number of additional plants.Fullington, R. W., and Harrington, D. 1979. Plusiotis woodi and Plusiotis gloriosa (Scarabaeidae); First Report of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. In Biological investigations in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas: proceedings of a symposium held at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 4-5, 1975 4:113.
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