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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Chrysobothrini » Chrysobothris » femorata species-group (Chrysobothris femorata species-group) » Chrysobothris rugosiceps
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Buprestidae - Chrysobothris rugosiceps
Copyright © 2015 Lisa I.

Buprestidae - Chrysobothris rugosiceps
Deane, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA
May 23, 2015
Size: 19mm
In child's pool. Dipped six out that morning.
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Contributed by Lisa I. on 30 May, 2015 - 8:57pm
Last updated 9 July, 2016 - 9:58pm

Chrysobothris rugosiceps Melsheimer, female
ID'd from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Lisa.

The second, smaller specimen you included is also a female C. rugosiceps.
… Brad Barnd, 9 July, 2016 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from femorata species-group.
… Brad Barnd, 9 July, 2016 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Chrysobothris.
… Joshua P. Basham, 1 June, 2015 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

pool color?
Hey Lisa...what color is the pool?
… Joshua P. Basham, 1 June, 2015 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

 
It
Is blue inside and out. One of the ones you blow the top ring up.
The one last year was blue inside but white, blue and orange outside but not as deep.
I missed a bigger species on the new one yesterday. :(
… Lisa I., 1 June, 2015 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Thats what I figured...they l
Thats what I figured...they like the blue and purple.
… Joshua P. Basham, 2 June, 2015 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
That's
Odd what in nature would attract them to those colors?
Flowers?
… Lisa I., 2 June, 2015 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

 
I collected
All of the ones like this one.
… Lisa I., 1 June, 2015 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 30 May, 2015 - 8:58pm login or register to post comments

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