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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Melanophilini » Phaenops » Phaenops lecontei
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Buprestid - Phaenops lecontei
Copyright © 2013 Tim Loh

Buprestid - Phaenops lecontei
Coquihalla Summit Rec. Area, British Columbia, Canada
July 27, 2013
Size: 9 mm
Landed on my beating sheet; alpine meadow, ca. 5500'; this one is giving me trouble- I keyed this to Anthaxia but got nowhere in the species key.
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Contributed by Tim Loh on 1 September, 2013 - 1:41am
Last updated 2 September, 2013 - 9:53pm

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I tagged and moved the only two of your images that, in my opinion, serve to identify this species. Do what you wish with the others. Oddly, only the median lobe of the genitalia is protruding, and the parameres are what are needed; otherwise, that shot would be useful. Another important character we cannot see are the serrulations on the lateral-apical portions of the elytra. These characters, and the coarsely wrinkled pronotal sculpturing, which we can see, serve to separate this from its very close relative, the flatheaded fir borer.
… Richard L. Westcott, 2 September, 2013 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Richard for the ID
I'll include dorsal view of the pronotum and the ventral view..will frass the rest.
… Tim Loh, 3 September, 2013 - 1:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Richard L. Westcott, 2 September, 2013 - 9:53pm login or register to post comments

melanophiline, perhaps? like Phaenops ?drummondi
looks cool; sent to Dr Westcott
… v belov, 1 September, 2013 - 2:18pm login or register to post comments

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