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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 » Spectralia » Spectralia gracilipes
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Black and Grey Bug - Spectralia gracilipes
Copyright © 2012 Wendy Guler

Black and Grey Bug - Spectralia gracilipes
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
June 13, 2011

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Contributed by Wendy Guler on 13 December, 2012 - 6:27pm
Last updated 20 December, 2012 - 10:47am

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Richard L. Westcott, 20 December, 2012 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

flipped for the guide; nice one -- suspect Spectralia gracilipes
will ask Dr Wescott to check it out, i'm not a bup expert.
thank you so much for correcting the data!

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 13 December, 2012 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Add'l photos
I have more photos of the same individual -- would that help? Do I just post those in ID Request as well?
… Wendy Guler, 13 December, 2012 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

 
please add those, by all means
proceed by clicking the 'add image' link under this photo -- this way the additional images will be automatically linked to this one.
love your pics.
… v belov, 14 December, 2012 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

Beetle, I want to say maybe a
Beetle, I want to say maybe a buprestid, but definitely wait some someone who knows more about beetles.

Looks similar to this, for example, although I don't think it's the same species:

… Melissa Barton, 13 December, 2012 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

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