''Strigulioides'' is a
monotypic genus of
beetles in the family
Buprestidae
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some ...
, the jewel beetles. The sole species, ''Strigulioides gabonica'', was transferred to its own genus from ''Discoderes'' in 1986.
[Bellamy, C. L. (1986)]
Rectifications and descriptions of new taxa in the Coraebini Bedel (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae).
''J Ent Soc Sth Afr'' 49(2) 239-49.
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Monotypic Buprestidae genera
Beetles of Africa
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