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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 » Buprestis » subgenus Cypriacis (Buprestis subgenus Cypriacis) » Buprestis prospera
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Iridescent Green Beetle - Buprestis prospera
Copyright © 2017 Tyger Gilbert

Iridescent Green Beetle - Buprestis prospera
Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
June 17, 2017
Size: About 1½ inches long.
Found on cut branch of Piñon pine tree on South Rim of Grand Canyon. Appears to be Genus Buprestis to me, but I'm just a photographer, so thought I should check with the experts here before I put it on my website.
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Contributed by Tyger Gilbert on 19 June, 2017 - 10:27pm
Last updated 20 June, 2017 - 11:42am

super --thanks all
Moved from Buprestis.
… v belov, 20 June, 2017 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

Buprestis prospera
it is the only species in the Cypriacis subgenus that hosts on Pinyon pine. Great find =)
… Pleocoma, 20 June, 2017 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

Moved, Buprestis sp.
Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 20 June, 2017 - 6:02am login or register to post comments

Genus is correct
seems to fit distribution of the Golden Buprestid Buprestis aurulenta but Im not as familiar with this genus as I should be..
… Guy A. Hanley, 19 June, 2017 - 10:53pm login or register to post comments

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