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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 » Anambodera » gemina complex (Anambodera gemina complex)
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Buprestid on Lessingia - Anambodera - female
Copyright © 2014 Aaron Schusteff

Buprestid on Lessingia - Anambodera - Female
On St John Ridge, along Piute Mountain Road, Kern County, California, USA
July 16, 2010
Looks like this may be in the Acmaeodera quadrivittata complex.

Seen here on flowers of Lessingia lemmonii var. peirsonii during a field trip to Piute Mountain w/ Dennis Haines (who I trust will be able to ID it if he sees it...at least to the extent possible without genitalia). I don't recall if I found this on the flowers here...or if Dennis had first netted it and then let me place it on the flower for photographs.

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Buprestid on Lessingia - Anambodera - female Buprestid on Lessingia - Anambodera - female
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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 12 March, 2014 - 12:31am
Last updated 21 March, 2014 - 10:45am

Identification
Now you are introducing additional images (the darker species), which I agree are in Anambodera. However, I maintain the others are Acmaeodera quadrivittata. If you want to keep disagreeing with me on this--and maybe prove that images often are unsatisfactory for identification--please send me at least one female of the lighter species for my examination.
… Richard L. Westcott, 21 March, 2014 - 2:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi Rick,
I'll gladly send you some Anambodera from Piute Mtn./Kelso Valley. Not all striped, tiny bups are Ac. 4-vittata, and there are a lot of Anambodera that can be difficult to separate based on pictures. This happens to come from an area where I have a lot of personal experience here in California. I was also present on the collecting trip when these pictures were taken. Come down some year and we'll go hunting the wily Anambodera and Acmaeodera from this area. Contact me through e-mail to give me your address these days.

I'm afraid the one specimen that William Ericson posted is a unique in my collection and I'm not in a position to send it to you at this time. But believe me when I say I have thoroughly reviewed that specimen and it is Anambodera in all respects.
… Dennis Haines, 21 March, 2014 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Thanks to all three of you!
Apparently the two groups can be very similar looking. This is a bit of a déjà vu...see the comments under the two Anambodera posts below:

… Aaron Schusteff, 20 March, 2014 - 10:00pm login or register to post comments

These pictures were taken...
of a live specimen on the flower. It doesn't belong to Acmaeodera quadrivittata (which is present in the area), but rather is in the genus Anambodera. This is a female, the males have a more dispersed pattern.
… Dennis Haines, 20 March, 2014 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Female
Thanks for the info, Dennis.
… Aaron Schusteff, 20 March, 2014 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acmaeodera quadrivittata.
… Dennis Haines, 20 March, 2014 - 5:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anambodera.
… Richard L. Westcott, 20 March, 2014 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… v belov, 12 March, 2014 - 7:31am login or register to post comments

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