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Metallic Wood Boring Beetle from Guatemala

Posted by July 17th, 2007 at 12:00 am

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Metallic Borer Beetles

Love your site!!!!!
I met this beetle in the western highland of Guatemala. Can you tell me anything about him/her?
Deborah Fraize

buprestid guatemala deborah Metallic Wood Boring Beetle from Guatemala

Hi Deborah,
This is a Metallic Wood Boring Beetle in the family Buprestidae, but we don’t currently have the time to research the exact species. Perhaps one of our enthusiastic readers can give us something more exact.

Update: February 16, 2011
Thanks to a comment from wildabug, we are able to link to an image of a different species,
Psiloptera torquata, on The Insect Collector website.

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Comments 2

  1. wildabug wrote:

    Psiloptera sp.

    Posted 15 Feb 2011 at 10:58 pm
  2. bugman wrote:

    Thank you for this and your other Buprestidae identifications.

    Posted 16 Feb 2011 at 8:29 am

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