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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 laevigatus
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Leaf mine - Pachyschelus laevigatus
Copyright © 2020 Tom Klein

Leaf mine - Pachyschelus laevigatus
Morton Forest County Park, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
October 14, 2019
In Hylodesmum glutinosum.
Adult on 4/19/20.

Edit 4/25/20: Replaced the original images of the adult with sharper ones.

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Leaf mine - Pachyschelus laevigatus Beetle - Pachyschelus laevigatus - female Beetle - Pachyschelus laevigatus - female Leaf mine - Pachyschelus laevigatus
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Contributed by Tom Klein on 19 April, 2020 - 7:44pm
Last updated 15 November, 2021 - 8:30am

Moved
Moved from Pachyschelus.

Norm has now examined the adults we reared (my male and your female) and confirmed that they are laevigatus.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 November, 2021 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

Pachyschelus female
This specimen of Pachyschelus is a female. The sexes are easy to tell apart. Females have a small comb of teeth at the apex of the last abdominal sternite which in most North American species is divided medially by a notch, which can easily be seen in the ventral view of this specimen. Males have a simple last sternite without teeth.
… Norm Woodley, 20 April, 2020 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

Male or female?
Can anyone tell if the adult is male or female?
… Tom Klein, 19 April, 2020 - 7:59pm login or register to post comments

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