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Jewel beetles

Insect
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some... Wikipedia
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Scientific name: Buprestidae
Family: Buprestidae; Leach, 1815
Phylum: Arthropoda
Size: 0.3 to 2.5 inches