Reared-from-wood

Guides

• Spectralia robusta

  Spectralia robusta is a metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. The species is known from North America, with records from Texas. It develops in living or partially living branches of its host plant, with adults emerging through distinct exit holes. The species has been reared from collected host material rather than observed as free-living adults.

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