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Acmaeodera sp.
Small black and yellow beetle of the Metallic Wood Boring Family Buprestidae. This one was not metallic and only about 5 mm long.
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
Compare this one to a very similar-patterned species from the same place http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/612....
Hi bayucca, your suggestion for genus looks very good. Amazing amount of variety in color pattern for this group. Thank you so much.
Looks like Polycestinae, Acmaeoderini, Acmaeodera sp.??
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/museum/lin...
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
I did not find a better match. They are variable, but I think not so much to be the same as the ones from the link. Must be a different species. In my eyes the subfamily and tribe should be correct. What do you think?? I am really not sure!
Spotted on Aug 20, 2013
Submitted on Oct 28, 2013
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