false jewel beetle

plural false jewel beetles

1. Any beetle of the family Schizopodidae, which resemble and are closely related to jewel beetles (buprestids).

   Schizopodidae, called "false jewel beetles", are a small group of beetles endemic to the western North America.

   2019, Dong Ren, Chungkun Shih, Taiping Gao, Yongjie Wang, Yunzhi Yao, editors, Rhythms of Insect Evolution, Wiley, page 377

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   Schizopodid beetles or false jewel beetles are similar to metallic wood-boring beetles or jewel beetles (Buprestidae) but are distinguished by the deeply bilobed fourth tarsal segment of the adults.

   2006, Arthur V. Evans, James N. Hogue, Field Guide to Beetles of California, University of California Press, page 123

   Commonly called false jewel beetles because the adults resemble jewel or metallic wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae, p.210), they^([schizopodids]) are distinguished by their deeply bilobed fourth tarsomere. Schizopodids are typically found feeding on spring-blooming desert flowers, clinging to dry grasses (Schizopus) or on foliage of oaks (Dystaxia) and junipers (Glyptoscelimorpha).

   2021, Arthur V. Evans, Beetles of Western North America, Princeton University Press, unnumbered page

   Synonyms: schizopodid