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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 bivulnera
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Small Buprestid - Acmaeodera bivulnera
Copyright © 2008 margarethe brummermann

Small Buprestid - Acmaeodera bivulnera
Picture Rocks, NW of Tucson, pima County, Arizona, USA
August 7, 2008
Size: 6mm

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 7 August, 2008 - 6:37pm
Last updated 21 August, 2008 - 8:49pm

Acmaeodera bivulnera
This is Acmaeodera bivulnera. This species has very dense setae on the abdomen, visible in this photo. A. acanthicola has sparser setae. I recently visited the U of A collection in Tucson and the unit tray for A. acanthicola contained some A. bivulnera mixed in.
… Norm Woodley, 2 January, 2017 - 11:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, that helps!
… margarethe brummermann, 3 January, 2017 - 9:33am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 21 August, 2008 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

Acmaeodera, maybe Ted can giv
Acmaeodera, maybe Ted can give you a closer ID
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 7 August, 2008 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks to be Acmaeodera bivuln
Looks to be Acmaeodera bivulnera.
… Dennis Haines, 8 August, 2008 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
In the U of Arizona Collection
these from the Tucson Mountains are labeled A. acanthicola. A bivulnera specimen are all from CA.
… margarethe brummermann, 21 October, 2010 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

 
Nelson gives the distribution
Nelson gives the distribution for A. acanthicola as CA and AZ, and the distribution for A. bivulnera as CA to NM (also Mex.). So both species are present in your area. Those that I've collected were identified as A. bivulnera, and they look very similar to this, but...
… Dennis Haines, 21 October, 2010 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

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