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Metallic woodborer - Buprestis rufipes
Copyright © 2007 Aaron Goodwin

Metallic woodborer - Buprestis rufipes
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
August 22, 2007
Based on Eric Eaton's wonderful new insect guide this beetle looks like Cypriacis fasciata. There is no entry for this species on BugGuide, so if a contributing editor deems this ID correct, will you please add this one to the site? Thanks!

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Contributed by Aaron Goodwin on 19 January, 2008 - 12:55pm
Last updated 20 January, 2008 - 5:13pm

Moved
Moved from Red-legged Buprestis.
… john and jane balaban, 20 January, 2008 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

Cypriacis
The info page for Genus Buprestis mentions Cypriacis "back as a subgenus of Buprestis". I'm not sure how that subgenus is treated in this case on BugGuide.
Also look at Red-legged Buprestis (Buprestis rufipes)
… John R. Maxwell, 19 January, 2008 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Am not familiar w/ Cypriacis fasciata...
I think it's Red-legged Buprestis (Buprestis rufipes)...
… Mike Quinn, 20 January, 2008 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

 
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I was going by the fairly new Kaufman field guide so that's why I was looking for Cypriacis and not Buprestis. Like I mentioned earlier, taxonomy will always be one of those things that keeps us turning in circles. You never know what's currently accepted. Thanks to everyone for the assistance on this one.
… Aaron Goodwin, 20 January, 2008 - 10:56pm login or register to post comments

 
ahhhh
Good call, John. Taxonomy is one of those things that will always confuse the heck out of all of us due to its ever-changing nature.
… Aaron Goodwin, 19 January, 2008 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

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