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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Buprestini » Trachykele » Western Cedar Borer (Trachykele blondeli)
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Sweet Little Bettle - Trachykele blondeli
Copyright © 2016 DementedTies

Sweet Little Bettle - Trachykele blondeli
Salem, United States / Oregon County
July 24, 2016
Size: Approximately one inch.
Found this one on my boot. Didn't seem interested in anything but just... being there. I was able to move it around and pose it quite a while. Very speckled. Not sure if it was just very timid or weak, but, seemed to have issues gripping on surfaces--leaves, fingers, boots.

My first thought was that it was a dogbane leaf beetle, however, the body shape seems to be all wrong, particularly for this little guy's rump.

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Contributed by DementedTies on 25 July, 2016 - 1:10am
Last updated 25 July, 2016 - 7:43am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 25 July, 2016 - 7:43am login or register to post comments

Trachykele blondelei is corre
Trachykele blondeli is correct.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 25 July, 2016 - 7:42am login or register to post comments

Hmmm...
... perhaps near to Species Trachykele blondeli - the Western Cedar Borer. See here: (1). A expert will know for sure.

Nice photos! And welcome to BugGuide!
… Jim Moore, 25 July, 2016 - 1:22am login or register to post comments

 
Oh!
That certainly looks like my little guy!

And thanks! Macro is wonderful.
… DementedTies, 25 July, 2016 - 1:27am login or register to post comments

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