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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Buprestini » Trachykele » Western Cedar Borer (Trachykele blondeli) » Trachykele blondeli blondeli
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Buprestidae -Trachykele sp. - Trachykele blondeli
Copyright © 2013 Kirk C. Tonkel

Buprestidae -Trachykele sp. - Trachykele blondeli
11km NW of Little Valley, Lassen County, California, USA
July 1, 2010
Size: 17mm
collected from clearing in oak/juniper woodland
alit on Artemesia sp.
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Contributed by Kirk C. Tonkel on 13 January, 2013 - 5:03pm
Last updated 14 January, 2013 - 10:55am

Host
The host here has to be juniper. Sagebrush was just an incidental resting place.
… Richard L. Westcott, 14 January, 2013 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

 
ID
Many thanks for the ID!
… Kirk C. Tonkel, 27 January, 2013 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trachykele.
… Richard L. Westcott, 14 January, 2013 - 10:55am login or register to post comments

thanks for the great image --will ask the experts to take a look
Moved from ID Request and flipped for the guide
… v belov, 13 January, 2013 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

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