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Castiarina flavopicta
This 8 mm long jewel beetle had metallic teal coloured head, thorax and elytra with bright yellow patterns on the elytra. Some of the yellow appeared a little faded and I thought that this was an abnormality until I saw similar colour change in Martin's spotting of similar beetles
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/121...
Legs were the same teal colour and the femurs were thick.
Spotted on Box Thorn in a nature reserve
My thanks to Martin Lagerway for the ID ad reference link.
The larvae live in wood while the adults feed on flowers.
Family : Buprestidae
Spotted on Feb 14, 2015
Submitted on Feb 15, 2015
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