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Poecilonota cyanipes? - Poecilonota cyanipes
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Poecilonota cyanipes? - Poecilonota cyanipes
Shediac - Parlee Beach Provincial Park, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
October 5, 2014
Size: est. 20 mm.
On low vegetation at edge of hardwood forest. Seems like it might be Eastern Poplar Buprestid Poecilonota cyanipes?

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Contributed by Stuart Tingley on 8 October, 2014 - 11:44am
Last updated 25 November, 2014 - 12:26pm

cool, thanks guys
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… v belov, 25 November, 2014 - 12:26pm

Most likely P. cyanipes...
Other eastern species in the genus (thureura, ferrea) rarely show such distinctly reddish elytral apices.
… Ted C. MacRae, 25 November, 2014 - 12:19pm

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