Iridescent Green Beetle - looks like a Click Beetle? - Nitidolimonius resplendens

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Iridescent Green Beetle - looks like a Click Beetle? - Nitidolimonius resplendens

Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, Fairbanks North Star Borough County, Alaska, USA
July 15, 2005
Size: .75 inch

This brilliant beetle was on my car in the Summer of 2005. It was very pretty - reminded me of a Click Beetle, but I have never seen one so brilliantly colored. I walked away for a minute and it was gone. It wasn't shaped like a Tiger Beetle but the color was similar.

Contributed by Barbara Logan on 14 December, 2006 - 4:39pm
Last updated 3 February, 2009 - 2:20pm

Moved

Moved from Ctenicera.

… John R. Maxwell, 3 February, 2009 - 2:20pm

Thank you!

I appreciate you looking at my pretty bug and identifying it for me! (SMILE)
Barbara

… Barbara Logan, 15 December, 2006 - 11:46am

closer . . .

Hi Barbara,

this one is probably a member of genus Ctenicera (in the wider sense).

regards, Boris

… Boris Büche, 15 December, 2006 - 5:36am

looks like C. resplendens

several spp. in Alaska, but I'll guess Ctenicera resplendens - a couple of subspecies recognized.

… Phillip Harpootlian, 15 December, 2006 - 10:06am

Ctenicera resplendens

I agree with Phillip. Based on comparison with the Wagner/Scott Collection.

… Dennis Haines, 23 January, 2008 - 6:15pm

Click Beetle

:-)

… Jim McClarin, 14 December, 2006 - 9:03pm

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