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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 » Anambodera » gemina complex (Anambodera gemina complex)
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Sandhills Buprestid - Anambodera
Copyright © 2010 Aaron Schusteff

Sandhills Buprestid - Anambodera
Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
July 30, 2009
Photographed in the Ben Lomond/Zayante Sand Hills habitat of the southern Santa Cruz Mountains. Feeding on flowers of Ben Lomond Buckwheat (Eriogonum nudum var. decurrens).

The closest looking match I could find on BugGuide was this.

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 11 February, 2010 - 12:44am
Last updated 1 March, 2010 - 8:12pm

Moved
Moved from Anambodera.
… Dennis Haines, 1 March, 2010 - 8:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera.
… Dennis Haines, 1 March, 2010 - 7:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 11 February, 2010 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

that 4-vittatoides thing is definitely a close kin
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… v belov, 11 February, 2010 - 10:20am login or register to post comments

 
Anambodera in my opinion. Did
Anambodera in my opinion. Did you collect the specimen?
… Dennis Haines, 1 March, 2010 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Dennis
I wasn't aware that those two genera were so similar looking. Is there an easy to state or describe character difference that distinguishes Anambodera from Acmaeodera?

I didn't collect the specimen.
… Aaron Schusteff, 1 March, 2010 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

 
The Anambodera tend to
The Anambodera tend to be more cylindrical, also they have a dusty-dull look to them from all the fine sculpturing on the integument and fine hairs. The sutural ridge on the side of the pronotum is rotated down the side and the anterior terminus is low on the eye. If you can look at the front tarsal claws those of Ac. 4-vittata are modified so that the inner claw of the male is larger than normal. There are also differences with the genitalia, but that wouldn't be readily seen.
… Dennis Haines, 1 March, 2010 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the details, Dennis
Comparing various BugGuide images in the two genera, I think I see the distinction regarding the sutural ridge on the side of the pronotum...and how it's lower in Anambodera.

I'll try to get direct (vs. oblique) profile shots of this group in the future, as it seems like that will be a useful view for distinguishing Anambodera and Acmaeodera.
… Aaron Schusteff, 3 March, 2010 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

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