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Callidium violaceum

Callidium violaceum
Searsmont, Waldo County, Maine, USA
June 22, 2012

Doug Yanega says: "violaceum - elytra too shiny...
"...and sparsely-punctate for anything else"

so it's a new, albeit non-native, species for BG -- thanks!

Moved from Callidium.

Moved/cropped; location data edited
state abbreviations are redundant (state added from another field); in the submission form, all the checkboxes were checked... pls make sure to check only those that apply
Moved from Longhorned Beetles.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Looks a lot like Callidium to me, but I'm not familiar with the northeastern fauna.

 
suspect C. violaceum, but it's indeed hard to tell

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