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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera mixta
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Which Bup? - Acmaeodera mixta
Copyright © 2007 Kojun Kanda

Which Bup? - Acmaeodera mixta
Big Springs State Park, Howard County, Texas, USA
July 5, 2007
Size: 6mm
only found on a certain kind of flower but forgot to take photos of it... whoops!
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Contributed by Kojun Kanda on 9 July, 2007 - 3:45pm
Last updated 7 July, 2010 - 12:26pm

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera.
… v belov, 7 July, 2010 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

Identification
Acmaeodera mixta Horn
… Richard L. Westcott, 7 July, 2010 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

This could be...
...Acmaeodera obtusa. It has been recorded from flowers of Opuntia lindheimeri and Calylophus drummondianus.
… Ted C. MacRae, 10 July, 2007 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

 
different flower
From what I recall, the flower definitely wasn't opuntia and the flowers do not look like the Calylophus flowers images I've looked at. Is there a key to this large genus? Its the most common buprestid I encounter in the SW and I would like to be able to put names on the ones I have.
… Kojun Kanda, 10 July, 2007 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
Genus Acmaeodera...
...160 species in the U.S., mostly in the southwestern states. No comprehensive key has been written since 1899, so IDs require familiarity with the primary literature and a GOOD reference collection.
… Ted C. MacRae, 10 July, 2007 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

 
It's also in French, which do
It's also in French, which doesn't help much
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 22 August, 2008 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

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