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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 » Hippomelanina » Prasinalia » Prasinalia cuneata
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Buprestid - Prasinalia cuneata
Copyright © 2010 Robyn Waayers

Buprestid - Prasinalia cuneata
Anza Borrego Desert, San Diego County, California, USA
June 30, 2006
Size: 13 mm
Found on Larrea in desert scrub and boiling heat. I think there was a little bit of a powdery moisture-retaining substance present before capture.
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 12 February, 2010 - 7:35pm
Last updated 17 May, 2012 - 1:02am

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Joshua P. Basham, 28 June, 2010 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

Identification
Joshua is correct, this is Prasinalia cuneata (Horn).
… Richard L. Westcott, 28 June, 2010 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Rick!
Thanks Rick!
… Joshua P. Basham, 28 June, 2010 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Prasinalia cuneata
Looks like Prasinalia cuneata to me. Maybe someone else can confirm it.
… Joshua P. Basham, 13 February, 2010 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

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