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Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle

Photo by LaurenZarate
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Description:

This beetle looks superficially like another spotting from the same place. They fooled me until I looked at the pictures enlarged! This one is a metallic bronze color with yellow markings. Both beetles are of similar size. Family Buprestidae.

(Previous spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/61236062/fullscreen)

Habitat:

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

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