A Dicerca obscura in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (10/13/2015). Verified by Joshua P. Basham/BugGuide.
A Dicerca obscura in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (10/18/2016). Verified by Norm Woodley/BugGuide.
A Dicerca obscura in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (10/19/2020). Verified by Joshua P. Basha and T. Hedlund via BugGuide.
Dicerca obscura in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (10/14/2020). (c) eaglebeach, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
Dicerca obscura in Cecil Co., Maryland (10/19/2025). (c) Shannon Schade, all rights reserved
Dicerca obscura in Cecil Co., Maryland (10/19/2025). (c) Shannon Schade, all rights reserved
Dicerca obscura in Cecil Co., Maryland (10/19/2025). (c) Shannon Schade, all rights reserved
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Source: Wikipedia
| Dicerca obscura | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Dicerca |
| Species: | D. obscura
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| Binomial name | |
| Dicerca obscura (Fabricius, 1781)
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Dicerca obscura is a species of brownish-black coloured beetle from Chrysochroinae subfamily which is found in central and eastern USA and Canada, where it feeds on various persimmon species (including Diospyros virginiana) and staghorn sumac.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Henry Skinner (1919). "Entomological News". 30–31.
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