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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera neglecta
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Buprestidae - Acmaeodera? - Acmaeodera neglecta
Copyright © 2008 Graham Montgomery

Buprestidae - Acmaeodera? - Acmaeodera neglecta
Bastrop State Park, Bastrop County, Texas, USA
April 6, 2008
Size: ~4 mm
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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 6 April, 2008 - 8:11pm
Last updated 26 September, 2015 - 4:51pm

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera neoneglecta.
… Richard L. Westcott, 6 August, 2010 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

Identification
In light of further thinking, comparison with other photos and with specimens, and discussion with Ted MacRae, I have decided that this image is best placed under A. neglecta, and will move it accordingly. Without seeing actual specimens, preferrably series of them, identifications in this group can easily be suspect.
… Richard L. Westcott, 6 August, 2010 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Dr. Westcott!
Its nice to get this down to species, even if it isn't 100% positive.
… Graham Montgomery, 7 August, 2010 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera neglecta.
… Richard L. Westcott, 3 August, 2010 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Graham Montgomery, 8 April, 2008 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

Acmaeodera neglecta...
...similar to A. tubulus, but the elytra are less shiny and more strongly punctate. The joining of the basal elytral yellow spots into "C"-shaped markings occurs commonly in this species but rarely in A. tubulus.
… Ted C. MacRae, 7 April, 2008 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for the ID and the detailed explanation.
… Graham Montgomery, 8 April, 2008 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

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