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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood Boring Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Spectralia » Spectralia gracilipes
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Bupestrid - Spectralia gracilipes
Copyright © 2011 Brad Barnd

Bupestrid - Spectralia gracilipes
Pulaski County, Kentucky, USA
May 30, 2011
Size: 10 mm
Found dead in basement.

Found a lot of great stuff down in Kentucky this weekend. Looking forward to sorting thru it all. :)

(Changed specimen in photo after initial posting.)
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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 30 May, 2011 - 6:54pm
Last updated 30 May, 2011 - 8:59pm

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.

Key characters (apex of elytra and last abdominal sternum) match up well.
… Brad Barnd, 30 May, 2011 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

check out Spectralia gracilipes
by no means an ID [bups scare me... almost as much as pleurostict scarabs]
… v belov, 30 May, 2011 - 8:03pm login or register to post comments

 
bups scare me too
I was looking at Spectralia myself, but wasn't sure. Will check further.
… Brad Barnd, 30 May, 2011 - 8:22pm login or register to post comments

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