Metallic Wood-boring Beetle
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Metallic Wood-boring Beetle
Coleoptera: Buprestidae; The Metallic Wood-boring Beetles or Jewel Beetles. This 18mm specimen is probably a Flat-headed Hardwood Borer (Dicerca divaricata). Heavily pitted body appears to be armor-plated.
Top photo: Flash angled to emphasize the metallic reflectivess of the body.
MF 105mm Micro Nikkor @ full extension, f/8 on lens, + 140mm extension. 50 frames @0.1mm HF4.1.
Bottom image to show body shape, flash diffused to minimize relections.
Recently aquired voucher specimen, 12x08.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
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Re: Metallic Wood-boring Beetle
Beautiful - you have many more Dicerca species in N-America than we have in Europe.
Cheers
I can confirm that - I once tried to pin a Capnodis sp. from the Mediterranean. I applied such a pressure that the round end of the pin penetrated my finger while the acute end had hardly made a dent into the integument of the beetleNikonUser wrote:Heavily pitted body appears to be armor-plated.
Cheers
Harry
Re: Metallic Wood-boring Beetle
Thanks Harry. This seems to be the most frequently seen species but they are nowhere near as common as Cerambycids, especially Monochamus scutellatusrovebeetle wrote:Beautiful - you have many more Dicerca species in N-America than we have in Europe.
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives