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Jewel beetle

Castiarina erythroptera

Description:

Feeding on an endemic leptospermum sp. flowers this Lycid mimic Buptrestid beetle had to compete with many other beetle species. About 22mm long.

Habitat:

In a local national park containing a couple of acres of this ti-tree species which was mostly flowering..

Notes:

Lycid mimic Jewel beetle?. Too windy and uncooperative beetles spoiled this shot. With any luck I intend to improve it later this week.
family: BUPRESTIDAE
subfamily: Buprestinae
tribe: Stigmoderini
subtribe: Stigmoderina
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...

1 Species ID Suggestions

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago
Jewel beetle
Castiarina erythroptera


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2 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Thanks Martin. There's a few misnamed out there I think.

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago

Sorry no reference as I am mobile but it's in my gallery. The common one has orange margin on the apex of elytra. There are four similar species. Obviously all mimetic. I've not seen rufipennis yet.

Mark Ridgway
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Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Oct 21, 2014
Submitted on Oct 21, 2014

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