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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Chlaenius tricolor is a species of vivid metallic ground beetle in the family Carabidae.
Chlaenius circumscriptus is a species of ground beetle native to the Palearctic, the Near East, and North Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This species was formerly called Epomis circumscriptus , a member of the genus Epomis .
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Buprestoidea is a superfamily of beetles. [1] [2] ... the jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles. Schizopodidae LeConte ...
They are also known as ground beetles, and are oval shaped and elongated. They are black with a green metallic hue and vertical stripes running down their backs. The length of a fully grown beetle ranges from 27 to 31 mm. [2] They have three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings. The outer wings are greatly degenerated, making them unable to fly.
This large ground beetle has characteristic metallic bright green elytra, while scutellum is metallic bluish. The head is black. These colours have iridescent shades that change (green, blue, bronze, copper, gold black) according to the direction and quality of light.
The closest living relatives of the ground beetles are the false ground beetles (Trachypachidae) and the tiger beetles (Cicindelidae). They are sometimes even included in the Carabidae as subfamilies or as tribes incertae sedis, but more preferably they are united with the ground beetles in the superfamily Caraboidea, or Geadephaga. [12]
Chrysochroa buqueti, the red speckled jewel beetle, is a Southeast Asian species of beetle in the Buprestidae family and tribe Chrysochroini. It is found for example in Borneo and Malaysia. It is found for example in Borneo and Malaysia.