Acmaeodera gibbula LeConte., 1858

Westcott, Richard L. & Raschko, Mike, 2018, New plant associations for adults of some species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) occurring in the western United States, Insecta Mundi 644, pp. 1-3 : 2

Acmaeodera gibbula LeConte.

Beaten from dead limbs of Juniperus sp., Arizona, Santa Cruz Co., Pajarito Mts. , Sycamore Canyon, 31°25′55″N, 111°11′18″W, 2-IX-2017, MLRC. Several specimens were beaten from a totally dead juniper, others from dead branches of three recorded larval host genera at the same collecting site ; all larval hosts are legumes, except willow ( Nelson et al. 2008). This common and widespread beetle is well known as a “twig-sitter,” and even though multiple specimens were taken on the juniper, that it, a conifer, represents a larval host seems to us a stretch .