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Jewel beetle

Castiarina bimaculata

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

A relatively large buprestid with two yellow bands on a metallic blue background color.

Habitat:

Feeding on nectar of flowering ti-tree

Notes:

I only saw one of these. It was very alert and perched on the well flowering and higher part of the bushes. I caught it for a posed shot, lest it leave without a portrait.
I suspected C. bimaculata but this name belongs to a different species.

Reference Links:

http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/images/C_bifasci.jpg

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
MartinL
Confirm bimaculata. Thanks Joan Hales http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/8986 http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/images/C_bifasci.jpg

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PublishedNovember 8, 2013

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