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Species Acmaeodera prorsa

Buprestid? On Salvia blossoms - Acmaeodera prorsa Acmaeodera sp 1 - Acmaeodera prorsa Small Buprestid - Acmaeodera prorsa Black Beetle white spots on Chamise - Acmaeodera prorsa Black Beetle white spots on Chamise - Acmaeodera prorsa Buprestid on salvia. - Acmaeodera prorsa Unknown beetle? Perhaps Acmaeodera sp.? - Acmaeodera prorsa * - Acmaeodera prorsa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Polycestinae
Tribe Acmaeoderini
Subtribe Acmaeoderina
Genus Acmaeodera
Species prorsa (Acmaeodera prorsa)
Explanation of Names
Acmaeodera prorsa Fall 1899
Food
adults recorded on Ceanothus cuneatus, Quercus kellogii, Q. dumosa, Rosa californica, Salvia spp., Turricula parrryi(1)