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Jewel beetle

Dicerca obscura

Description:

About 20-23 millimeters long, colored and shaped as shown.

Habitat:

Dry deciduous forest for the most part. Beetle was on a wooden platform overlook.

Notes:

Identification furnished by Joshua P. Basham via Bugguide.net; confirmed by Richard Westcott.

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BugEric
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BugEric

New Jersey, USA

Spotted on Oct 4, 2012
Submitted on Feb 4, 2014

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