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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Spectralia » Spectralia gracilipes
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Spectralia gracilipes
Copyright © 2006 Frank Guarnieri

Spectralia gracilipes
Annapolis, 38.9810, -76.5625, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
August 15, 1988
Size: 12 mm
Collected at light. ID by Norman Woodley at the Smithsonian.
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Contributed by Frank Guarnieri on 6 June, 2006 - 10:24pm
Last updated 10 April, 2022 - 7:26pm

Spectralia gracilipes
A few years ago, the same mystery entomolgist who kindly keyed out the Buprestis nuttalli for me (see comments under photo 56199, again I feel bad for forgetting his name) ID'd this as Cinyra gracilpes. I showed the picture to Joshua Basham who thought Spectralia was the up to date genus name. This is the only Buprestid that I have ever collected at light.
… Frank Guarnieri, 6 June, 2006 - 10:31pm login or register to post comments

 
We collected one of this bups
We collected one of this bups at the Research Center that I work at and sent it to Rick Westcott. He named it Spectralia gracilipes. I would believe he is up to date on the bup names since it is his full time job. Also I have been seeing these lately and mentioning them to him, he never corrected me to use Cinyra.
… Joshua P. Basham, 6 June, 2006 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Cinyra is old name
Spectralia is the latest - was proposed by Casey 1909, as subgenus of Cinyra, later elevated to genus by Cobos 1979. You'll see Cinyra in the older literature for this.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 7 June, 2006 - 7:10am login or register to post comments

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