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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Cerambycinae » Callidiini » Meriellum » Meriellum proteus
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Longhorn Beetle (Iridescent Purple + Gold), 12:15pm - Meriellum proteus
Copyright © 2008 Borealfalcon

Longhorn Beetle (Iridescent Purple + Gold), 12:15pm - Meriellum proteus
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
May 29, 2008
It was identified as genus Phymatodes by some anonnymous person..
I wouldn't think such a beautiful beetle would have any similar species.

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Longhorn Beetle (Iridescent Purple + Gold), 12:15pm - Meriellum proteus Longhorn Beetle (Iridescent Purple + Gold), 12:15pm - Meriellum proteus
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Contributed by Borealfalcon on 14 September, 2008 - 4:17pm
Last updated 14 September, 2008 - 8:36pm

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Yup, Meriellum proteus.
… Ian Swift, 14 September, 2008 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Ian. Can you do a search on
225093 and 126113 and help us out with the IDs on those images?
… john and jane balaban, 14 September, 2008 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

perhaps a Callidium rather
smtg close
… v belov, 14 September, 2008 - 4:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Wonder if Meriellum
might be that something close
… john and jane balaban, 14 September, 2008 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

 
great -- thnx! i've learned something today!
Borealfalcon offers quite a bounty to the Guide, doesn't [s]he?
… v belov, 14 September, 2008 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for I.D./help
That "expert entomologist" was certain it was a phymatodes...

He!!
… Borealfalcon, 15 September, 2008 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Phymatodes is in the same tribe
as Callidium and Meriellum, so he was pretty darn close!
… john and jane balaban, 15 September, 2008 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

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