Chrysophana - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Chrysophana is a genus of beetle

Beetle

Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...

s in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:

Chrysophana conicola Van Dyke, 1937
Chrysophana holzschuhi Bily, 1984
Chrysophana placida (LeConte, 1854)

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