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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) » Polycestinae » Acmaeodera » Ladder-like Flower Buprestid (Acmaeodera scalaris)
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Ac. scalaris? - Acmaeodera scalaris
Copyright © 2005 Joshua Stuart Rose

Ac. scalaris? - Acmaeodera scalaris
World Birding Center HQ at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
November 15, 2005
I'm not 100% sure that this one is A. scalaris; it has more black and thinner yellow markings than the others, but that could easily be intraspecific variation, maybe diet-related. And this one has a red spot, but it could be a parasitic mite...

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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 18 November, 2005 - 4:45pm

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