{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sternocera chrysis-Musée zoologique de Strasbourg.jpg | image_caption = ''Sternocera chrysis'' | taxon = Sternocera | authority = Eschscholtz, 1829 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Sternocera''''' is a genus of jewel beetles belonging to the Julodinae subfamily. <ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Anisanee |first1=Thaenasa |last2=Nakorn |first2=Pradit |last3=Warayutt |first3=Pilap |last4=Chavanut |first4=Jaroenchaiwattanachote |last5=Komgrit |first5=Wongpakam |last6=Khamla |first6=Inkhavilay |last7=Jatupon |first7=Saijuntha |last8=Wittaya |first8=Tawong |last9=Warong |first9=Suksavate |last10=Chairat |first10=Tantrawatpan |last11=Weerachai |first11=Saijuntha |date=March 2025 |title=Exploring the Genetic Diversity of the Jewel Beetles Sternocera aequisignata Saunders, 1866, and S. ruficornis Saunders, 1866 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Thailand and Lao PDR |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/3/322 |journal=Insects |language=en |volume=16 |issue=3 |doi=10.3390/in |doi-broken-date=19 August 2025 |doi-access=free |issn=2075-4450 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250323142200/https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/3/322 |archive-date=2025-03-23}}</ref>
==Characteristics== There are 26 species in this genus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cerambycids.com/Buprestidae/WorldCat/Genera/Sternocera.htm |title=Genus Schizopodidae |author=Bellamy, C. L. |date=2013 |work=A Checklist of World Buprestoidea |access-date=7 Sep 2021}}</ref> Some species—''S. aequisignata'' and ''S. aurosignata''—are used for beetlewing craft because of their iridescent wings.
==Species== [[File:Buprestidae - Sternocera aequisignata-1.JPG|thumb|''Sternocera aequisignata'']] thumb|upright|''Sternocera hunteri'' thumb|''Sternocera sternicornis orientalis'' from India {| border="0" cellpadding="05" | * ''Sternocera aequisignata'' <small>Saunders, 1866</small> * ''Sternocera aurosignata'' <small>Thomson, 1878</small> * ''Sternocera cariosicollis'' <small>Fairmaire, 1884</small> * ''Sternocera castanea'' <small>(Olivier, 1790)</small> * ''Sternocera chrysis'' <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> - '''type species''' * ''Sternocera dasypleuros'' <small>Kollar, 1848</small> * ''Sternocera diardii'' <small>Gory, 1840</small> * ''Sternocera discedens'' <small>Kolbe, 1901</small> * ''Sternocera duvivieri'' <small>Kerremans, 1898</small> * ''Sternocera feldspathica'' <small>White, 1843</small> * ''Sternocera foveopubens'' <small>Fairmaire, 1884</small> * ''Sternocera funebris'' <small>Boheman, 1860</small> * ''Sternocera hildebrandti'' <small>Harold, 1878</small> * ''Sternocera hunteri'' <small>Waterhouse, 1889</small> | * ''Sternocera interrupta'' <small>(Olivier, 1790)</small> * ''Sternocera iris'' <small>Harold, 1878</small> * ''Sternocera klugii'' <small>Thomson, 1859</small> * ''Sternocera laevigata'' <small>(Olivier, 1790)</small> * ''Sternocera marseuli'' <small>Obenberger, 1923</small> * ''Sternocera multipunctata'' <small>Saunders, 1869</small> * ''Sternocera ngorongorensis'' <small>Holm & Gussmann, 1992</small> * ''Sternocera orissa'' <small>Buquet, 1837</small> * ''Sternocera pulchra'' <small>Waterhouse, 1879</small> * ''Sternocera ruficornis'' <small>Saunders, 1866</small> * ''Sternocera sternicornis'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> * ''Sternocera syriaca'' <small>Saunders, 1874</small> * ''Sternocera tricolor'' <small>Kerremans, 1886</small> |}
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Sternocera castanea boucardii Saunders, 1874 (3028954491) (2).jpg|''Sternocera castanea boucardii'' File:Buprestidae - Sternocera castanea boucardii.JPG| ''Sternocera castanea boucardii'', mounted specimen at National Museum (Prague) File:Buprestidae - Sternocera chrysis-1.JPG| ''Sternocera chrysis'', mounted specimen at National Museum (Prague) File:Sternocera.chrysis.chrysidoides.mounted.jpg| ''Sternocera chrysis chrysidoides'' from India - mounted specimen File:Sternocera.sternicornis.mounted.jpg| ''Sternocera sternicornis'', from Bengal - mounted specimen </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} *{{Wikispecies-inline}} *[http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups/sterafr2.htm African Sternocera] *[http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups/sterasia.htm Asian Sternocera] *[http://www.fond4beetles.com/Buprestidae/PDF/Holm/Holm&Gussmann%201992%20Sternocera.pdf Revision of the African ''Sternocera'' - Holm & Gussmann (1992)]
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Category:Buprestidae genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz