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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
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Tiny bullet-shaped beetle with lengthwise stripes, on my leg - Acmaeodera
Copyright © 2017 Jerry Friedman

Tiny bullet-shaped beetle with lengthwise stripes, on my leg - Acmaeodera
Dixon, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
June 23, 2017
Size: 3 mm?
The substrate is the integument of Homo sapiens, form albus. It probably got on there in pinyon-juniper habitat. Crawling around slowly.

Buprestidae?

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Tiny bullet-shaped beetle with lengthwise stripes, on my leg - Acmaeodera Tiny bullet-shaped beetle with lengthwise stripes, on my leg - Acmaeodera
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Contributed by Jerry Friedman on 24 June, 2017 - 2:38pm
Last updated 19 September, 2019 - 10:59am

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera conoidea.
… Jason Hansen, 19 September, 2019 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera parkeri.
… Richard L. Westcott, 21 August, 2018 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles. Thanks. It seems to have somewhat neater stripes than the other images in the guide.
… Jerry Friedman, 24 June, 2017 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

Acmaeodera sp.
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… Bruce Tilden, 24 June, 2017 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles. Thanks for the ID.
… Jerry Friedman, 24 June, 2017 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

Buprestid
Acmaeodera or something close to that
… Brad Barnd, 24 June, 2017 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

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