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1825 for the genus, Agrilus, synchronizes the chron with John Jacob Astor's fur trade and the shipping of ten tons of Turkish opium to China. As McCoy records in The Politics of Heroin, Chiang Mai was a hub for opium trafficking:
coleopsoc.org/buprestidae/PDF/Bellamy/Bellamy&Bily1997.pdf
'....Tha Ngon, Laos....Mae Sa, near Chiang Mai....'
www. "Two New Genera and Species of Buprestidae from South America"
'....Bily S. 1997....Polyctesis johanidesi sp. nov. from Turkey....'
coleopsoc.org/buprestidae/PDF/Bellamy/Bellamy&Bily1997.pdf
'....Tha Ngon, Laos....Mae Sa, near Chiang Mai....'
www. "Two New Genera and Species of Buprestidae from South America"
'....Bily S. 1997....Polyctesis johanidesi sp. nov. from Turkey....'