Chrysobothris adelpha Harold, 1869 (Figs. 3, 15, 27) Chrysobothris adelpha Harold 1869:124 (nom. nov. for C. soror LeConte 1860: 232 Chrysobothris adelpha Gemminger & Harold 1869: 1423. Franklin & Lund 1956: 34; Dominguez 1969: 24 –26; Wellso, et al. 1976:11; MacRae 1991: 112 Diagnosis. Both sexes have relatively inconspicuous elytral foveae and smooth punctate pronota with transverse ridges. Males: clypeus not semicircularly rounded on each side of middle, margin green. Each genital paramere with lateral perpendicular spine (Fig. 15). Some individuals have as many as seven very small protibia teeth. Males: 7.6 – 12.9 mm long, 3.0 – 5.2 mm wide. Females: clypeus brown, margin greenish to bronzy-brown. Pygidium with lateral impression broadly concave and with unique hyaline membrane margin (Fig. 27). Females: 8.9 – 16.0 mm long, 4.1 – 5.9 mm wide. Hosts. This species usually is associated with Carya spp., and has been reared from: Amelanchier arborea (Michx. f.). Fern., Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch., C. ovata (Mill.) E. Koch., C. tomentosa Nutt., and Prosopis grandulosa Torr. Distribution. Its range appears to be as broad as that of its hosts, and this species probably occurs in all of the states east of those from Texas to Minnesota, reported from Mexico (Dominguez, 1969) and Canada (Bright, 1987). NEW STATE RECORDS: KENTUCKY: Estill Co., Taylorsville, 8-VI-86, D. A. Porter. TENNESSEE: Monroe Co., Cherokee Ntl. For., Citico Creek Rdl, 30-V-86, J. E. Zablotny. WISCONSIN: Dane Co., Madison, 18-VI-66, S. G. Wellso.

Published as part of Wellso, Stanley G. & Manley, Gary V., 2007, A revision of the Chrysobothris femorata (Olivier, 1790) species group from North America, north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 1652 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273993