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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Paratyndaris » subgenus Paratyndaris (Paratyndaris subgenus Paratyndaris) » Paratyndaris olneyae
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Buprestid on dead mesquite branches - Paratyndaris olneyae
Copyright © 2009 margarethe brummermann

Buprestid on dead mesquite branches - Paratyndaris olneyae
Picture Rocks, NW of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
June 13, 2009
Size: 8 mm
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 13 June, 2009 - 11:42pm
Last updated 15 June, 2009 - 5:39pm

Ancylotela/Paratyndaris??
total and complete merp indeed
… v belov, 14 June, 2009 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Paratyndaris olneyae (Skinner
Paratyndaris olneyae (Skinner, 1903). Great pictures as always!
… Dennis Haines, 15 June, 2009 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks so much, Dennis
… margarethe brummermann, 15 June, 2009 - 5:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Ok I'll send it out to some specialists tonight
… margarethe brummermann, 14 June, 2009 - 7:12pm login or register to post comments

Merp? That is soooo cool! Awe
Merp? That is soooo cool! Awesome pic too!
… William Ericson, 14 June, 2009 - 9:06am login or register to post comments

 
Gee, Will,
give me the name if you know it - Merp doesn't get me anywhere!
… margarethe brummermann, 14 June, 2009 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

 
I don't know what it is. Merp
I don't know what it is. Merp in this context is a form of being flabergasted and questioning=what the heck is that buprestid?
… William Ericson, 14 June, 2009 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Not even my American born linguist husband
figured that out. How dissapointing (that you don't know either) I just found anotherone at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
… margarethe brummermann, 14 June, 2009 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

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