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Metallic Wood Boring Beetle

Photo by LaurenZarate
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Field Notes

Description:

Very small Jewel Beetle of about 8 mm in length. The colors are more metallic in artificial light. The last 3 pictures were taken on 20 August 2013 in the same place, but on a white paper with flash. Family Buprestidae.

Habitat:

Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.

Species ID Suggestions

Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle

Agrilus pulchellus

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Miguel.Denyer
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Comments (1)
LaurenZarate
Thank you Miguel for your help with this beetle. I do think it might be in this genus, but the tegumental structure and the prothoracic plate of this one is very different from A. pulchellus. The color pattern however is remarkably similar! Also A. pulchellus has a white underside, whereas this one has a metallic green underside. I looked all through pictures of species of Agrilus and couldn't find one like this one.

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PublishedAugust 27, 2013

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