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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Agrilini » Agrilus » Soapberry Borer (Agrilus prionurus)
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Metallic woodboring beetle? - Agrilus prionurus
Copyright © 2007 Penny Crispin

Metallic woodboring beetle? - Agrilus prionurus
Lake Corpus Christi, San Patricio County, Texas, USA
May 15, 2007

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Contributed by Penny Crispin on 4 June, 2007 - 12:08pm
Last updated 1 June, 2011 - 10:18pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Brad Barnd, 27 June, 2007 - 8:12pm login or register to post comments

Agrilus prionurus
A Mexican species only just reported from south Texas last year - it breeds in soapberry trees.
… Ted C. MacRae, 14 June, 2007 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Has been in Texas since 2003...
Ted,

This species was first found in Bastrop County, in central Texas in 2003 (probably by Stan Welso).

Info sheet from the Texas Forest Service
… Mike Quinn, 28 July, 2008 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for the ID!
… Penny Crispin, 27 June, 2007 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Great
A new species for the guide!
… Brad Barnd, 27 June, 2007 - 8:14pm login or register to post comments

This reminds me more of a Met
This reminds me more of a Metallic Wood-boring Beetle than a leaf hooper.

Maybe something like this
http://bugguide.net/node/view/72528/bgimage
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 4 June, 2007 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

 
You're right..
It certainly looks like a better match.
… Penny Crispin, 4 June, 2007 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

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