Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Chrysobothris shawnee

Moved

Moved from femorata species-group.

… Joshua P. Basham, 28 June, 2010 - 3:44pm

Chrysobothris shawnee

Det. by Stan Wellso

… Joshua P. Basham, 28 June, 2010 - 3:44pm

Thanks so much Joshua

an Stan.

… J. Ott, 28 June, 2010 - 5:16pm

Moved

Moved from Chrysobothris.Thanks Jason.

… J. Ott, 18 June, 2010 - 9:06pm

Chrysobothris femorata complex

The elytra look a lot like a members of the Chrysobothris femorata complex, composed of 12 species currently.

… Jason Hansen, 11 June, 2010 - 9:05am

Moved

Moved from Metallic Wood Boring Beetles.

… J. Ott, 18 May, 2010 - 8:30pm

I think it is a Chrysobothris species BUT

I am more interested in the wasp. Check out Cerceris fumipennis images and let me know if that is your wasp. You can go back there and find the wasp agggregation and gets lots of buprestids. The wasps usually hang out together and make burrows in open gravelly areas near woods. They prey on buprestids exclusively.

… Harry Zirlin, 18 May, 2010 - 3:45pm

Gotta be it

on both, thanks.

… J. Ott, 18 May, 2010 - 5:04pm