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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Hippomelanina » Hippomelas » Hippomelas planicauda
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Hippomelas planicauda? - Hippomelas planicauda
Copyright © 2019 Sue Carnahan

Hippomelas planicauda? - Hippomelas planicauda
Salero Ranch, E of Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
September 2, 2019
Size: about 3 cm
On Calliandra eriophylla (woody legume).
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Contributed by Sue Carnahan on 2 September, 2019 - 6:50pm
Last updated 5 September, 2019 - 2:36pm

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Sue Carnahan, 5 September, 2019 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Hippomelas planicauda
This is Hippomelas planicauda.
… Norm Woodley, 5 September, 2019 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

Hippomelas parkeri Nelson
See
Nelson, G. H. & C. L. Bellamy. 1996. A revision of the subtribe Hippomelanina: Hippomelas Laporte and Gory, Prasinalia Casey, Gyascutus (Stictocera) Casey, and Barrellus, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Journal of Natural History 30:861-911.
… Pleocoma, 3 September, 2019 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
H. planicauda larger than parkeri
I am certainly no beetle expert, but according to Bill Warner in AZ, who consulted a key by Bellamy & Nelson, H. parkeri don't get longer than 19 mm, so at ~30 mm my beetle seems more likely to be H. planicauda.
… Sue Carnahan, 5 September, 2019 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

 
Update
I did not see the size, and pronotum is more broader rather than slender. Good call
… Pleocoma, 5 September, 2019 - 2:48pm login or register to post comments

 
H parkeri
Interesting - how do you separate parkeri from planicauda?
… Sue Carnahan, 3 September, 2019 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

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