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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 » Buprestis » subgenus Cypriacis (Buprestis subgenus Cypriacis) » Buprestis striata
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Buprestid Beetle - Buprestis striata
Copyright © 2013 Fyn Kynd

Buprestid Beetle - Buprestis striata
Searsmont, Waldo County, Maine, USA
March 26, 2013
Found dead in greenhouse.

It looks like a perfect match for Buprestis aurulenta except for range... thanks for any help.

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Buprestid Beetle - Buprestis striata Buprestis striata
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Contributed by Fyn Kynd on 26 March, 2013 - 4:47pm
Last updated 28 March, 2013 - 10:50am

Thanks Richard!
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… Fyn Kynd, 28 March, 2013 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from subgenus Cypriacis.
… Richard L. Westcott, 28 March, 2013 - 10:50am login or register to post comments

 
Identification
If someone were to have shown me that photo without indication of origin, my immediate reaction would be to call it B. aurulenta. I'm not sure I have seen quite that extreme of color variant in B. striata. However, if you look closely at the image you will see that the prominent raised elytral costae are distinctly punctate. That is typical of B. striata. The color of that species, though, is highly variable. Our western B. aurulenta too varies widely, but I do not know of any dark form like is common in B. striata. Other closely related species occur in Europe, B. splendens, and Japan, B. niponica.
… Richard L. Westcott, 28 March, 2013 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

striata? might be an accidental import, though
nice shot. will ask around

Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… v belov, 26 March, 2013 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks v belov.
Thanks. Found this:
… Fyn Kynd, 26 March, 2013 - 6:29pm login or register to post comments

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