Wild-geranium
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Pachyschelus purpureus
Pachyschelus purpureus is a small metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae, tribe Trachyini. Adults are active in early spring and are associated with wild geranium (Geranium maculatum). The species is part of a distinctive group of leaf-mining buprestids with flattened, compact body forms adapted for larval development in leaf tissue rather than wood.