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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera idahoensis
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Buprestid Flower Beetle - Acmaeodera idahoensis
Copyright © 2010 Jake Hurlbert '10

Buprestid Flower Beetle - Acmaeodera idahoensis
Hood River, Hood River County, Oregon, USA
June 23, 2010
Size: 14mm
This Beetle was found on the flower of a hawkweed. The city of Hood River is located in the semi arid steppes east and north of Mt Hood.
There are few trees, some Ponderosa and lodgepole pine, mostly prairie type landscape.
Only one pic then the beetle flew away. It appears to match pictures in the Buprestidae within the Acmaeodera genus.
It was taken in situ with an EOS 50D with a 1:1 lens. A good common name may be a Buprestid Flower Beetle.
This beetle will be in a an ecology news letter in August. http://mysite.ncnetwork.net/reszg5fl/DownLoads.html
Your help with an ID is very much appreciated. Jake
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Contributed by Jake Hurlbert on 24 June, 2010 - 6:27pm
Last updated 5 December, 2012 - 4:52pm

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera.
… Richard L. Westcott, 5 December, 2012 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 4 July, 2010 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

It is an Acmaeodera, though I
It is an Acmaeodera, though I don't know which one.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 24 June, 2010 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Buprestid Flower Beetle
What about a variation of Acmaeodera ornata??
… Jake Hurlbert, 24 June, 2010 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

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