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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 » Anambodera » Anambodera palmarum
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Buprestidae - Anambodera palmarum
Copyright © 2011 Hartmut Wisch

Buprestidae - Anambodera palmarum
Cottonwood Springs Rd., ~1/4 mi s. Joshua Tree National Park boundary, Riverside County, California, USA
May 3, 2011
Size: ~ 4 mm
I followed this little beetle trying to get some better images. Bright sun, you're trying to discern the little moving thing. Anyway, the beetle led me to a rather small Eriogonum reniforme (see adjacent photos).
Any ideas as to who this might be?

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 10 July, 2011 - 11:16pm
Last updated 12 July, 2011 - 4:24pm

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Richard L. Westcott, 12 July, 2011 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the ID, Richard!
Thanks for the ID, Richard!
… Hartmut Wisch, 12 July, 2011 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

Most likely Anambodera.
Most likely Anambodera.
… Joshua P. Basham, 11 July, 2011 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Joshua -
Hopefully, Richard Westcott or Dennis Haines will see this as well.
… Hartmut Wisch, 11 July, 2011 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

 
This species complex has the
This species complex has the body covered with squamate hairs. From the pattern on the elytra it is probably a female, but there's no way to be sure without pulling the genitalia. Great pictures!!
… Dennis Haines, 12 July, 2011 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Hartmut Wisch, 11 July, 2011 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

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