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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Chrysochroini » Chalcophora » Sculptured Pine Borer (Chalcophora virginiensis)
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I think this is a metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. Can anyone take this beetle to genus and species? - Chalcophora virginiensis
Copyright © 2016 Mike Turner

I think this is a metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. Can anyone take this beetle to genus and species? - Chalcophora virginiensis
Hoffman, Richmond County, North Carolina, USA
September 7, 2016
Size: ~40mm
This beetle was on a species of grass (possibly eating pollen?) in the Sandhills of NC.

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I think this is a metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. Can anyone take this beetle to genus and species? - Chalcophora virginiensis I think this is a metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. Can anyone take this beetle to genus and species? - Chalcophora virginiensis
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Contributed by Mike Turner on 17 September, 2016 - 8:57pm
Last updated 24 November, 2021 - 9:14pm

Moved
Moved from Chalcophora.
… Joshua P. Basham, 24 November, 2021 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

location data needs correction, text in wrong fields
reads "Hoffman, NC, Richmond County, NC County, North Carolina"
… v belov, 5 August, 2017 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved, Chalcophora sp.
Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 18 September, 2016 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

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