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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Dicercina » Dicerca » Flatheaded Poplar Borer (Dicerca tenebrica)
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Buprestid- Dicerca sp. - Dicerca tenebrica
Copyright © 2008 Tim Loh

Buprestid- Dicerca sp. - Dicerca tenebrica
Nosehill Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
June 28, 2008
Size: 21 mm
Species figured out :-)

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Contributed by Tim Loh on 13 November, 2008 - 1:33am
Last updated 14 April, 2011 - 11:14pm

Moved
Moved from Dicerca.
… Tim Loh, 15 May, 2009 - 12:29am login or register to post comments

Are you aware of..
Bright, D.E. 1987. The metallic wood boring beetles of Canada and Alaska, Coleoptera: Buprestidae. In: The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, Part 15. Bisosystematics Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publication 1810?
It has keys and illustrations for Dicerca in Canada.
… Skip Blanchard, 13 November, 2008 - 6:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Update
I managed to find the publication at my school's library and keyed this out to D. tenebrica. Will have to update these old pics soon.
… Tim Loh, 15 May, 2009 - 12:29am login or register to post comments

 
hmmm...
maybe I'll take a look in the school library (at the U of C)...I've checked U of A's entomology collection and come up with 2 possibilities- D. tenebrica (poplar borer) or D. divaricata...the former may be more appropriate as the habitat where I found this specimen was dominated by balsam poplar and aspen and the median groove on the pronotum looks prominent.
… Tim Loh, 14 November, 2008 - 12:24am login or register to post comments

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