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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 » Dicercina » Dicerca » Dicerca obscura
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Metallic Wood-boring beetle - Dicerca obscura
Copyright © 2011 J. Ott

Metallic Wood-boring beetle - Dicerca obscura
Pearl River County, Mississippi, USA
February 14, 2011
Size: 14.5mm
This looks like Dicerca obscura to me however I am finding these under bark
in of what I think is a black tupelo tree,I always recognize the D. obscura
and always find them under/on pine bark and usually larger than this.
Id appreciated.12/7/2011 tree id correction added is Cyrilla racemiflora.

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Contributed by J. Ott on 15 February, 2011 - 4:59pm
Last updated 7 December, 2011 - 12:21pm

Moved
Moved from Dicerca.
… Richard L. Westcott, 24 February, 2011 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Joshua P. Basham, 17 February, 2011 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

looks like D. obscura to me.
looks like D. obscura to me. The black tupelo or black gum is the host for D. spreta. You have some confused beetles lol
… Joshua P. Basham, 15 February, 2011 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Or maybe I have removed the loose bark on every dead
pine in a 5 mile radius and they have no where else to go lol!
… J. Ott, 15 February, 2011 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Haha yeah that could be the c
Haha yeah that could be the case!
… Joshua P. Basham, 15 February, 2011 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Actually I retracting my ID o
Actually I retracting my ID of D. obscura till it can be looked at under a scope.
… Joshua P. Basham, 15 February, 2011 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

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