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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Melanophilini » Phaenops » Hemlock Borer (Phaenops fulvoguttata)
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Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Phaenops fulvoguttata - male
Copyright © 2008 Stephen Luk

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Phaenops fulvoguttata - Male
Horner Park, Richmond Hill (N43º52'20.8"W079º24'45.2"elev.203m), York Region, Ontario, Canada
June 5, 2008
Size: 7.4 mm
There were several dozen of these buprestids patrolling or resting on or near a huge felled tree, which I suspect could have been a very large Pinus resinosa because of the thick reddish bark. This smaller-sized individual (probably a male) was resting on a nearby False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum). It lacks the six spots on the elytra which most of the other individuals possess; I think this is just variation.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 10 June, 2008 - 12:52pm
Last updated 31 July, 2008 - 10:41pm

I've noticed the same variati
I've noticed the same variation in specimens from eastern Tennessee. The ones I looked at are in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Insect collection. They were reared from the bark of a Hemlock tree. I have also trapped the other with spots on the elytra in eastern Tennessee.
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