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Nunu Active Member Registered: May 2009 Location: Madrid Posts: 47	· Date: Thu 3, September 2009 · Views: 1058 · Filesize: 94.3kb, 124.4kb · Dimensions: 794 x 1023 ·
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paul m

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Registered: November 2006
Location: Sheffield, South Yorks, UK
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Wed 1, December 2010 4:00am

Did we ever get a name for this?

It's one of the Buprestidae (jewel beetles) probably a Buprestis sp and looks much like Buprestis novemmaculata. It's quite variable in size of the yellow markings.

http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id6063/

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