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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Polycestinae » Acmaeoderini » Acmaeoderina » Acmaeodera » Acmaeodera diffusa
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Buprestid.... - Acmaeodera diffusa
Copyright © 2013 Gary Griswold

Buprestid.... - Acmaeodera diffusa
22 miles SE Moab, San Juan County, Utah, USA
June 26, 2013
Size: ~ 8mm
Collected on small yellow flower, possible Acmaeodera? Help appreciated....

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Buprestid.... - Acmaeodera diffusa Buprestid... - Acmaeodera diffusa
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Contributed by Gary Griswold on 21 October, 2013 - 1:55pm
Last updated 26 December, 2022 - 3:24pm

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...I am about 90% sure that this is...
Acmaeodera bowditchi. They tend to be a bit larger, around 10+ mm, but they are variable in size and in the degree of maculation.
… Bruce Tilden, 11 October, 2014 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Identity
And you would be 100% wrong--ha! But hey, without the specimen, more likely a series from the same place in hand, I cannot make a positive ID.
… Richard L. Westcott, 5 November, 2014 - 3:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Update
Looking at this image again and comparing it to a series of 40 specimens in my identified collection, now I will say it is Acmaeodera diffusa, a common and variable species, though largely, if not entirely, restricted to the Great Basin.
… Richard L. Westcott, 26 December, 2022 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

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