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Buprestidae. (Acmaeodera macra a possibility?) but it doesn't exactly look like that either.
Spotted on a flower at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas.
Spotted on Nov 11, 2020
Submitted on Dec 1, 2020
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I would agree, the variation is a little different on this specimen compared to the other ones in the genus.
Thank you Ornithoptera80 for the suggestion. I have doubts about A. amabilis as BugGuide has its easterly extent of range in west Texas. Also it has red and mine doesn't. I'll keep looking.