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Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Chrysobothris rugosiceps

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Chrysobothris rugosiceps
Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
May 24, 2007
Size: 9mm
There were a few of these on a large oak branch that had recently broken off. This was mating with another one the same size (9mm), and then I got another one that looked the same but was 13mm (next post).

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Moved
Moved from Chrysobothris.

Chrysobothris rugosiceps female
Keys right out!

Moved back
I'll wait for an id from the specimen to move it to a species page. Thanks Ted.

Thanks Ted
I'll move them to the species page for now. I've been saving the specimens for Joshua Basham. He's good about getting a species id from the specimens.

 
Chrysobothris genus page...
...might be better for now. I doubt it is the species C. femorata, as it doesn't exhibit the reddish highlights on the elytral apices and sharply angled posterior elytral margins characteristic of that species. Also C. femorata is more often associated with non-oak hardwoods (maple, apple, sycamore, ash, etc.). Other species in the group such as C. rugosiceps, C. viridiceps, C. misella, and some of the undescribed species are usually associated with oak.

Chrysobothris femorata species-group
A complex of several very closely related species - including some still undescribed. Characters of the antennae, frons/clypeus, genitalia (male) and last tergite (female) are usually necessary for species ID.

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