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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 and False Jewel Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Buprestini » Buprestis » subgenus Cypriacis (Buprestis subgenus Cypriacis) » Golden Buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta)
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Skarab Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta
Copyright © 2012 Paul B

Skarab Beetle - Buprestis aurulenta
Shoreline, King County, Washington, USA
July 7, 2009
Size: 1.5 inches? Big for a bug
I landed on my boat, in my yard in shoreline, wa. (North Seattle.) It was in the warm months, maybe summer, maybe spring.
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Contributed by Paul B on 8 March, 2012 - 3:12am
Last updated 9 June, 2014 - 4:09am

If you're not certain whether it was spring or summer,
how did you settle on the date July 7?
… john and jane balaban, 11 March, 2012 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Martin Hauser, 11 March, 2012 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

Buprestis aurulenta Thank
Buprestis aurulenta
Thank you, yes BC is a few hours away, this is very interesting, and yes it was a beautiful bug. I never knew such a bug lived near me. Seemingly rare, I hope more pop up, unless of course, they start boring into my wooden house, then I will be interested in knocking them out with a shot of brakekleen, to immobilize them, and then photograph them more closely and at my leisure.
… Paul B, 8 March, 2012 - 5:38am login or register to post comments

im not a beetle person
but i think it has to be a woodboring beetle Golden Buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta)
like this one found fairly near you..
… Edna Woodward, 8 March, 2012 - 4:02am login or register to post comments

 
seconded, B. aurulenta
common along the Pacific; the antenna immediately rules scarabs out
… v belov, 8 March, 2012 - 9:26am login or register to post comments

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