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Metallic borer beetle

Buprestis splendens

Photo by ecoherence
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Field Notes

Description:

It's aptly named, so splendid ...

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Buprestis splendens, Buprestis splendens

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
Ashish
No more comments....all are in same family Buprestidae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprestidae
Ashish
Noe and Pilli Take a look at http://www.entomology.ualberta.ca/searching_species_details.php?b=Coleoptera&c=7&s=2989 I think its Dicerca tenebrica See the Neck area where wings joined and end of wings where is little curve.
ecoherence
Thanks Noe and Pili, I was shure it's Buprestidae family, but your right it's not at all a tenebrica, it's too beautiful ;-) and with the normal distribution of this specie i this also that is a Buprestis splendens... Take care
Noe and Pili
I think it could be a Buprestis splendens. Take a look: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6317186
Ashish
Metallic borer beetle(Dicerca tenebrica)

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PublishedJune 25, 2011

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