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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Metallic Wood-boring and False Jewel Beetles (Buprestoidea) » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Chrysochroinae » Dicercini » Hippomelanina » Barrellus » Barrellus femoratus
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Barrellus femoratus (Knull) - Barrellus femoratus - male
Copyright © 2014 Kyle Schnepp

Barrellus femoratus (Knull) - Barrellus femoratus - Male
San Diego County, California, USA
June 30, 1957
Collected by David Peterson, ID'd by G.H. Nelson.
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Contributed by Kyle Schnepp on 12 February, 2014 - 12:29pm

Where's the like button?! Gre
Where's the like button?! Great photo Kyle!
… Joshua P. Basham, 12 February, 2014 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

oh yeah... priceless.
Mssrs Peterson, Nelson, and Schnepp -- BG's heartfelt gratitude for your help!!

Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… v belov, 12 February, 2014 - 12:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Locality
Yes, great to have an image of this essentially extinct critter, even though the locality data is useless. This species is one of the great mysteries of buprestidology!
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