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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Melanophilini » Melanophila » Melanophila atropurpurea
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metallic woodborer - Melanophila atropurpurea
Copyright © 2019 Valerie G. Bugh

metallic woodborer - Melanophila atropurpurea
Candelaria, Presidio County, Texas, USA
August 21, 2018
Found near where we were running mercury vapor lights, near the Rio Grande River flood plain.
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Contributed by Valerie G. Bugh on 2 February, 2019 - 12:19pm
Last updated 1 August, 2020 - 12:54pm

Moved
Moved from Actenodes mendax.
… Valerie G. Bugh, 1 August, 2020 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

This is Melanophila, probably m. atropurpurea
… Pleocoma, 1 August, 2020 - 12:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you very much
for the correction!
… Valerie G. Bugh, 1 August, 2020 - 12:56pm login or register to post comments

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