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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera neoneglecta
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small buprestid - Acmaeodera neoneglecta
Copyright © 2012 john and jane balaban

small buprestid - Acmaeodera neoneglecta
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, USA
April 13, 2012
The Opuntia cactus flowers had many of these inside.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 5 May, 2012 - 7:32pm
Last updated 14 August, 2020 - 4:49pm

Moved
Moved from expert-reviewed images & snippets -- temporary page.
… v belov, 14 August, 2020 - 4:49pm login or register to post comments

I can definitively say morpho
I can definitively say morphologically this is NOT Acmaeodera neglecta. It Is Acmaeodera neoneglecta.
… Jason Hansen, 14 August, 2020 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera.
… v belov, 19 December, 2012 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

i'd say, keep it
at some point we might want to make pages to accommodate images that cannot be ID'd to species but can be sorted to informal species groups -- i expect such pages to be useful and educational.
at any rate, we can afford keeping some extra ballast in a genus this huge; after all, we have just over 750 pics per ~85 identified spp. (and ~60 spp. to go!) --nothing exactly extravagant.
[ugh... statements like this one don't make it easier to uphold my frass-happy reputation... losing my grip, i guess]
… v belov, 28 November, 2012 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

 
Good idea..
I agree; it certainly cannot hurt. However, there can be a problem in defining a species group. :-) So, is this in the "tubulus group or the neglecta group, or are they "congroupic"? Do we need "subgroups"? Come on, Ted...weigh in! :-)
… Richard L. Westcott, 20 December, 2012 - 11:06am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… v belov, 5 May, 2012 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Identification
In my opinion moving it to the genus is about all we can do without seeing the specimen, preferably a series of specimens. From the locality we might deduce this is A. neoneglecta; however, this is a difficult taxonomic group at best, and having to ID from images alone puts it into the category of a nightmare!
… Richard L. Westcott, 27 November, 2012 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

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