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metallic wood borer - Dicerca pugionata
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

metallic wood borer - Dicerca pugionata
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 30, 2005
Found this one hiding under a piece of bark.

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Contributed by tom murray on 8 May, 2005 - 3:49pm
Last updated 1 July, 2005 - 6:01am

Dicerca pugionota
Well Tom, the verdict is in. This is a Dicerca pugionota (Germar). It's recorded host are alder, withhazel, and ninebark. Key to the northeastern subfamilies of Buprestidae (adapted from Nelson, 1981). Sorry no new record. Joshua Basham
… Joshua P. Basham, 30 June, 2005 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

 
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D. pugionata (there is no Dicerca species named pugionota)
… Robin McLeod, 3 July, 2005 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

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