Jewel beetles (Buprestidae)

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References for Jewel Beetles (family Buprestidae): https://sites.google.com/site/buprestidpages/

And a photo gallery for the family: https://sites.google.com/site/buprestidpages/buprestidae-gallery

This gallery can be searched by genus, for example, Castiarina:

https://sites.google.com/site/buprestidpages/castiarina-gallery

Another good gallery for Castiarina: http://www.virtual-beetle.com/castiarinafp.html

Jewel beetles (Buprestidae)

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KylieWaldon wrote:

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TY KimberiRP. a first for me.

Selagis aurifera

jb2602 wrote:

1 Feb 2025

Specimen C

Agrilus hypoleucus

jb2602 wrote:

1 Feb 2025

Specimen B. An emergence of around 15 beetles settled and flying around a small group of young Acacia dealbatas.

Agrilus hypoleucus

jb2602 wrote:

1 Feb 2025

Specimen A: length 9 mm; length/width = 4.8; hind leg tarsus 1 - long (as long as next 3).
See The genus Agrilus in Australian, Gianfranco Curletti, Jewel Beetle (2001)

Agrilus hypoleucus

entom2 wrote:

1 Feb 2025

No worries Stuart! I like to know about such extra-limital records (which we can now consider as being 'within limits', ha!), so good work! Providing an ID with a high confidence highlights the importance of having as comprehensive as possible a private reference collection, preferably with multiples of each species that have been reliably identified, that can one can look at in mere moments, compared to public collections that take an enormous amount of time, money, and energy to visit in order to look at specimens, which may or may not have the species you want to look at! Of course, in cases of uncertainty / if the original descriptions are inadequate, one must try to look at the type specimen / syntypes, where accessible, but not always possible / affordable, as the types of many Australian species are in Europe! Cheers, Allen

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