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Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Dicerca crassicollis
Copyright © 2013 Jim Moore

Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - Dicerca crassicollis
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
September 4, 2013
Size: 19mm
Perhaps Species Poecilonota salixi or some near to species? See here: (1).
My thanks for confirmation or otherwise!

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Contributed by Jim Moore on 11 September, 2013 - 1:38am
Last updated 11 September, 2013 - 1:23pm

Moved
Moved from Poecilonota.
… Richard L. Westcott, 11 September, 2013 - 1:23pm

 
soiled myself again, didn't i?
… v belov, 11 September, 2013 - 1:30pm

 
I was wondering if it was Poe
I was wondering if it was Poeci too. Scutellem didn't look right for the Dicercas I know, which aren't that many
… W. Steffens, 11 September, 2013 - 8:31pm

neat bug, excellent series, great call; hope experts agree
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… v belov, 11 September, 2013 - 7:39am

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