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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) » Chrysochroinae » Dicerca
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buprestid remains - Dicerca
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

buprestid remains - Dicerca
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
January 10, 2007
Size: 17mm elytra
This buprestid adult got only halfway out its exit hole in an aspen trunk section that was suspended upsidedown in a tangle of bittersweet vines. I'm unsure if its front portion was missing before I arrived or if I knocked it off before I noticed the rest of it. I suspect it is the same species as a large larva I found in the same trunk section.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 11 January, 2007 - 9:13pm
Last updated 12 January, 2007 - 5:34am

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 12 January, 2007 - 5:34am login or register to post comments

genus ID
Hi Jim,

the "tailed" elytra leave no doubt: genus Dicerca.

The larva you extracted from the same trunk will belong to it (looks like some I´ve seen - but sure that does not mean much in Bups larvae). Generally, Dicerca (and Buprestis) larvae do not spend much time just below the bark, but soon tunnel deeper - and they develop in wood that has begun to rot.

regards, Boris
… Boris Büche, 12 January, 2007 - 4:53am login or register to post comments

 
Dicerca
Thanks. I thought that's what it was but didn't recognize it in the species posted in bugguide.
… Jim McClarin, 12 January, 2007 - 5:31am login or register to post comments

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