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Dark metallic Jewel Beetles mating. About 1 cm long, a dark mixture of metallic greens, blues and reds on the upper surface and silvery white on the underside. There were many of these beetles on the leaves in the forest and many mating pairs. Family Buprestidae. The larvae of these beetles bore in wood, probably small branches.
Forest, about 5 km up Mt. Huitepec, west of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Spotted on Aug 20, 2015
Submitted on Mar 5, 2016
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