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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Chrysobothrini » Chrysobothris » Chrysobothris octocola
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ID of agrilus beetle - Chrysobothris octocola
Copyright © 2017 graysonrenee

ID of agrilus beetle - Chrysobothris octocola
Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA
July 1, 2017

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Contributed by graysonrenee on 1 July, 2017 - 5:49pm
Last updated 18 May, 2018 - 7:54am

Moved
Moved from Chrysobothris.
… v belov, 3 July, 2017 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 1 July, 2017 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

Chrysobothris? not Agrilus in any case
might be a nice one -- any chance you can post a straight dorsal habitus shot?
angles here make identification quite difficult
… v belov, 1 July, 2017 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

 
I added one more shot. They w
I added one more shot. They were challenging to photograph because they were above me and moving around the trunk of this Palo Verde tree very quickly and were not very keen on standing still. :)

Thank you for the quick reply!
… graysonrenee, 1 July, 2017 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks, that added shot is much more comfortable
'challenging to photograph' --ha! tell me about it... they are among the most hyperactive beetles, esp. on sunny days; i have no clue how people manage to take live pics of them at all, must be an ordeal

hope the experts are able to narrow it down further
… v belov, 1 July, 2017 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

 
The high here was 109F so I'm
The high here was 109F so I'm sure that didn't help. Digging further could they be Chrysobothris viridiceps?
… graysonrenee, 1 July, 2017 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Chrysobothris is well above my pay grade
...to put it mildly --and i've never been much into bups anyway [lovely bugs though, no question about it]

a number of bup experts are active on BG, hope you get a name soon -- this skinny bup looks rather distinctive to my lay eye
… v belov, 1 July, 2017 - 7:42pm login or register to post comments

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