Darkling Beetle Moorooduc Sep17

This photogenic beetle is found under bark. This genus is always metallic green or purple with perfectly symmetrical puncturation series. There are many species in this genus and I do not expect to find the species name.

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Pudding4brains

Lion

Hi Martin, I saw some image of yours somewhere else that was indeed identified to species (cyanopterus) - did you send that one in? Even though I cannot see the mandibles on this one I've tentatively added the tag Chalcopteroides as I'm under the impression that most of the specimen with the metallic lustre would pertain to this genus, but frankly that's just me having a wild guess. Do you think it's fair to assume this genus?
Found a partial key here (daunting indeed ;o) :
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1989.tb01207.x/pdf Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago

Mark Ridgway

Lion

Lovely lighting Martin. Posted 4 years ago

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