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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Tracheini » Pachyschelus » Pachyschelus purpureus » Pachyschelus purpureus purpureus
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Buprestidae, Wild geranium leaf miner, upper side of leaf - Pachyschelus purpureus
Copyright © 2019 MJ Hatfield

Buprestidae, Wild geranium leaf miner, upper side of leaf - Pachyschelus purpureus
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, USA
August 5, 2019
August 4, 2019: meandering at night with my friend Judy, headlamps on, looking for insects and sign of insects, we explored the immediate city neighborhood but didn't expect to find much. To my surprise, we did find and collect 4 leaf mines on Wild geranium, Geranium maculatum, which I initially thought were the micro-moth Parectopa geraniella. Gently feeling one of the leaf mines, there was something round and of decent size, certainly not a parasitoid cocoon, an odd shape and too big for such a tiny moth. Whatever it was, each of the 4 mines had one.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 30 September, 2019 - 10:25am
Last updated 4 February, 2020 - 5:29pm

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