Insect - Metallic Beetle
Jul 17, 2020 22:30:38 #
I found this expired beetle in the dog exercise yard where I have found an assortment of specimens over time. I thought that it was a piece of gold foil with rose and green metallic colors so I picked it up to keep the dogs from eating it. I was surprised to see that it was a scarab beetle of some sort although it was a bit worse for wear.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
Jul 17, 2020 22:34:01 #
Looks like stamped metal. What a beautiful array of colors and textures on one little beetle!
Jul 17, 2020 22:40:31 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I found this expired beetle in the dog exercise yard where I have found an assortment of specimens over time. I thought that it was a piece of gold foil with rose and green metallic colors so I picked it up to keep the dogs from eating it. I was surprised to see that it was a scarab beetle of some sort although it was a bit worse for wear.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
A full body shot, please.
This is a newtome.Scarab looks to be a good bet, though.
Bill
Jul 17, 2020 23:08:33 #
newtoyou wrote:
A full body shot, please.
This is a newtome.Scarab looks to be a good bet, though.
Bill
This is a newtome.Scarab looks to be a good bet, though.
Bill
Bill, I'll take a picture looking down on it tomorrow. It is a goldish green front with a roseish gold back half. Its body shape looks like a Fig Eater Scarab however they are a dull surface green. They are close to the same size however and I can definitely see some resemblance in their features, although not in coloration.
It's been beat up a bit and some of the metallic finish has worn however I believe in waste-not-want-not when it comes to specimens.
Jul 17, 2020 23:10:46 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
Looks like stamped metal. What a beautiful array of colors and textures on one little beetle!
Thanks, Donna. That's what caught my eye as it lay in the gravel of the dog exercise yard where I thought it was a piece of foil off something that the dogs got into.
Jul 18, 2020 00:10:01 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I found this expired beetle in the dog exercise yard where I have found an assortment of specimens over time. I thought that it was a piece of gold foil with rose and green metallic colors so I picked it up to keep the dogs from eating it. I was surprised to see that it was a scarab beetle of some sort although it was a bit worse for wear.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
Without looking I am going to suggest Phanaeus vindex. A female.
But I have my doubts. We'll see.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 00:25:23 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I found this expired beetle in the dog exercise yard where I have found an assortment of specimens over time. I thought that it was a piece of gold foil with rose and green metallic colors so I picked it up to keep the dogs from eating it. I was surprised to see that it was a scarab beetle of some sort although it was a bit worse for wear.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
I brought it in and staged it for a focus stacking session and this is the result.
Another possibility (I don't like 'guess') is one of the colorful Buprestids. Buprestis aureolentus (spelling?) or rufipes ?
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 07:18:26 #
Jul 18, 2020 10:17:17 #
newtoyou wrote:
Without looking I am going to suggest Phanaeus vindex. A female.
But I have my doubts. We'll see.
Bill
But I have my doubts. We'll see.
Bill
Winner...Winner Chicken Dinner..!! That's exactly what it is. I looked up the Phanaeus which is also referred to as a "Rainbow Scarab" and I attached a copy of a picture of one (PICTURE TAKEN FROM WEB for reference only - NOT MINE).
Mines a bit more beat up although there is no doubt you nailed it..!
Jul 18, 2020 10:18:13 #
Jul 18, 2020 10:58:28 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Winner...Winner Chicken Dinner..!! That's exactly what it is. I looked up the Phanaeus which is also referred to as a "Rainbow Scarab" and I attached a copy of a picture of one (PICTURE TAKEN FROM WEB for reference only - NOT MINE).
Mines a bit more beat up although there is no doubt you nailed it..!
Mines a bit more beat up although there is no doubt you nailed it..!
Hot damn. I must have some living brain cells.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 12:04:55 #
newtoyou wrote:
Hot damn. I must have some living brain cells.
Bill
Bill
Bill, this is the Rainbow Scarab that you so wisely identified for me. I posed it for a few shots to show its full body and coloration. I can see a stub of a horn on its face which as you indicated is a female for the males have a pronounced horn. Perhaps someday a male will come along.
The magnified focus stacked image that I posted was taken as an angle that tended to distort its rounded face plate so it looked a bit strange compared to the different angle of the conventional macro images on this post.
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