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Red-legged Buprestis Beetle

Buprestis rufipes

Field notes

Buprestis rufipes, the red-legged buprestis, is a green metallic wood boring beetle native to southern and eastern United States in North America. Little is known about this beetle. It apparently inhabits dead or dying hardwood in its adult phase.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided