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Family Buprestidae
Buprestidae is a family of beetles, known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described. (Wikipedia)
Spotted on Sep 11, 2012
Submitted on Sep 11, 2012
5 Comments
I'll check it, thank you.
mmm, this looks more like a Fungus beetle (Erotylidae)
Thank you Gerardo and Lois.
Wow fantastic :)
Very cool!