Metallic Wood Borer, Buprestis viridisuturalis (Buprestis viridisuturalis) on Jul 28, 2022

Originally reported as Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)

Submitter has sample

Description of specimen

This specimen looks remarkably similar to an emerald ash borer. However, the wings are a brown color rather than metallic green. Given that I found the specimen dead, I thought that it might be possible this is an EAB and the wings were sun-bleached or something like that. I looked over all of the native woodboring beetles and could not find anything that matched this one.

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