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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Buprestini » Buprestis » subgenus Cypriacis (Buprestis subgenus Cypriacis) » Golden Buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta)
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Metallic Wood Boring Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta
Copyright © 2010 Lynette Elliott

Metallic Wood Boring Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta
Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington, USA
July 10, 2010
Size: ~ 20 mm
Found on the side of my house.

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 10 July, 2010 - 8:17pm
Last updated 5 December, 2010 - 1:42pm

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… William Ericson, 11 August, 2010 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
William.
… Lynette Elliott, 11 August, 2010 - 3:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Its nooooooooo problem at all
Its nooooooooo problem at all, I have been IDing Buprestis and other North American Bups for the past eight months, in the west coast there are only a couple things that look even remotely like B. aurulenta; Theres B. inticata, B. adjecta, and B. prospera.
… William Ericson, 11 August, 2010 - 10:03pm login or register to post comments

Can't Help...
with ID, but that is an incredibly beautiful beetle! Nice find!
… Scott Justis, 10 July, 2010 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Gorgeous!
***
… Gacko, 10 July, 2010 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

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