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NikonUser
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Location: southern New Brunswick, Canada
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 Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:52 am Post subject: Metallic Wood-boring Beetle |
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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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rovebeetle
Joined: 22 May 2008
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Location: Vienna, Austria
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: Re: Metallic Wood-boring Beetle |
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Beautiful - you have many more Dicerca species in N-America than we have in Europe.
| NikonUser wrote: | Heavily pitted body appears to be armor-plated.
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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 beetle 
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NikonUser
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: Metallic Wood-boring Beetle |
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| rovebeetle wrote: | Beautiful - you have many more Dicerca species in N-America than we have in Europe.
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Thanks Harry. This seems to be the most frequently seen species but they are nowhere near as common as Cerambycids, especially Monochamus scutellatus
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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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beetleman
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Location: Southern New Hampshire USA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent detail on the metallic surface. My second favorite group of beetles (Tigers are my first).
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Tom Stack
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NU,
Absolutely beautiful, almost looks golden! Well done!
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