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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Sphenoptera » Sphenoptera jugoslavica
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Buprestidae 01a - Sphenoptera jugoslavica
Copyright © 2008 Karl Volkman

Buprestidae 01a - Sphenoptera jugoslavica
Near Curlew Lake, ~10 miles Northeast of Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
July 12, 2008
Found in the tall grass near several young Ponderosa Pines in the evening.

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Buprestidae 01a - Sphenoptera jugoslavica Buprestidae 01b - Sphenoptera jugoslavica
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 4 August, 2008 - 11:57pm
Last updated 7 November, 2008 - 5:49pm

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 7 November, 2008 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

Anthaxia
more probably...
Chrysobothris has dentate front femurs
… Francesco Vitali, 7 August, 2008 - 12:34am login or register to post comments

Chrysobothris...? It looks l
Chrysobothris...?
It looks like a Chrysobothris to me, but wait for Ted or Joshua to confirm.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 5 August, 2008 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

 
Can you give us a size to wor
Can you give us a size to work with? This is not an identification but, I'm thinking it might be Sphenoptera jugoslavica. It has been released in the Pacific Northwest for the biological control of Diffuse Knapweed.
… Dennis Haines, 7 August, 2008 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

 
Sphenoptera jugoslavica
I'm going with Sphenoptera jugoslavica also. I do have a couple specimens of these species that I'll can post if you would like and we could go from there.
… Joshua P. Basham, 18 August, 2008 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

 
Knapweed/size
There is a fair amount of Knapweed in the area and Ferry County is one of the leading areas for biocontrol of invasive weeds so I would not be surprised by this.

The size of this particular specimen was about 6mm as far as I can tell.
… Karl Volkman, 7 August, 2008 - 2:48pm login or register to post comments

 
You right!
The elytral base is bisinuate and the eyes are too rounded: Sphenoptera seems me to be better.
… Francesco Vitali, 7 August, 2008 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

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