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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 » Flatheaded Hardwood Borer (Dicerca divaricata)
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Buprestid - Dicerca divaricata
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Buprestid - Dicerca divaricata
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 12, 2011
Size: 16.3mm
I found this beetle hanging from a spider web, already dead.
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Contributed by tom murray on 12 August, 2011 - 8:57pm
Last updated 13 August, 2011 - 12:13pm

My brother collected a jumpin
My brother collected a jumping spider carrying around a Chrysobothris quadriimpressa. You can see the puncture holes in the bup's elytra.
… Joshua P. Basham, 14 August, 2011 - 12:21am login or register to post comments

Spider meal
Hi Tom,

Next time snap a photo of the spider eating its daily buprestid--ha!
… Richard L. Westcott, 13 August, 2011 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

 
That's a good idea for a picture. But this one was just dangling on a line coming from behind the bottom clapboard on the house.
… tom murray, 13 August, 2011 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dicerca.
… Richard L. Westcott, 13 August, 2011 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

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