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Golden Buprestid - Buprestis aurulenta
Copyright © 2014 Jim Moore

Golden Buprestid - Buprestis aurulenta
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
July 6, 2013
Size: Body length 21mm
The only Golden Buprestid, of several over the years, that has a brilliant green ventral surface. All the others had a redish-bronze ventral surface. Compare ventral surface with my June 4, 2013 specimen:


Could this perhaps be the difference between male and female?

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Contributed by Jim Moore on 19 June, 2014 - 2:05am

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