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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Buprestis » Buprestis (Cypriacis) aurulenta (Buprestis aurulenta)
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Metallic wood boring beetle? - Buprestis aurulenta
Copyright © 2007 epona

Metallic wood boring beetle? - Buprestis aurulenta
Nelson, West Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada
June 17, 2007
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Contributed by epona on 17 June, 2007 - 6:01pm
Last updated 19 June, 2007 - 11:39am

For clarity...
The colours of the beetle are unfortunately a bit distorted in the picture due to my lack of camera skills and lack of a decent lens. The edges around each of the forewings was a distinct bronze colour while the middle section of each forweing, forming a stripe down the length of them, was rich iridecent green-blue, depending on the angle of viewing. I am quite new to this attempt to ID bugs - but this one was just too beautiful not to try.

We do have a lot of tamarack trees where we live, though I've never seen this beetle before in the four years we've lived on this property.
… epona, 19 June, 2007 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

Metallic wood boring beetle
Maybe Buprestis striata?
… Sharon Perrault, 17 June, 2007 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Doubt it.
I don't know the distribution for Cypriasis striata, but a more likely candidate is C. aurulenta, the "golden buprestid." Last I heard, Cypriasis had been split from Buprestis as its own, valid, genus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 June, 2007 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Eric is right...
...Cypriacis aurulenta.
… Ted C. MacRae, 19 June, 2007 - 10:25am login or register to post comments

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