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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Ptosima » Redbud Borer (Ptosima gibbicollis)
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Metallic Wood-borer - Ptosima gibbicollis
Copyright © 2005 Joshua P. Basham

Metallic Wood-borer - Ptosima gibbicollis
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, USA
May 24, 2005
Size: 5.0-8.0 mm
This buprestids common name is the redbud borer. This specimen was found wondering around a redbud leaf, which they can be found feeding frequently. Only four species of this genus is know to occur north of Mexico.
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Contributed by Joshua P. Basham on 25 July, 2005 - 12:13am
Last updated 25 July, 2005 - 5:47am

Moved to guide
Pretty beetle. I wrote a guide and moved the photo there. Unfortunately there is no field for author in the taxonomic system--perhaps that should be added. I noted author of the species (Say) in the guide page for the species.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 25 July, 2005 - 6:21am login or register to post comments

 
I agree
I agree with you! I've never seen any thing like it before. Nice photo!
… Brittanie McCormack, 29 June, 2006 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

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