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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Tracheini » Brachyina » Taphrocerus » Taphrocerus nicolayi
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Taphrocerus gracilis? - Taphrocerus nicolayi
Copyright © 2013 tom murray

Taphrocerus gracilis? - Taphrocerus nicolayi
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 12, 2013
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Contributed by tom murray on 13 September, 2013 - 7:25am
Last updated 18 September, 2013 - 7:34pm

Moved
Moved from Taphrocerus.
Thanks Ted. I saved the specimen and am planning on sending it to Joshua.
… tom murray, 18 September, 2013 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

 
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...who will likely end up sending it to me :)
… Ted C. MacRae, 19 September, 2013 - 11:17am login or register to post comments

 
Ted, should I just send this one and a couple others I have saved to you?
… tom murray, 19 September, 2013 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

More than likely...
...this is Taphrocerus nicolayi, which is smaller and less distinctly wedge-shaped than T. gracilis and lacks the brassy luster of the latter. Firm IDs in this genus are rarely possible from photos alone.
… Ted C. MacRae, 18 September, 2013 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

ID
That is as good a guess as any. I suggest sending the image to Ted MacRae and/or Henry Hespenheide. Very nice image, Tom; however, a very difficult genus (at least in my opinion).
… Richard L. Westcott, 18 September, 2013 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

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