Found this creature in east Jamaica by the sea shore. It's about 2.5 INCHES long. What is it? Anyone?
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2007-09-09 16:27:20 · 11 answers · asked by Alon G 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
To start it is NOT a cockroach.
It is a species that comes from the order Coleoptera (beetles) and the family Buprestidae (metallic wood-boring beetles, jewel beetles, flatheaded borers).
Exactly which one it is... well... in buprestidae there are about fifteen thousand species. Your best bet is to break it down into the different genera because the subfamilies are more or less broken down into the location they live. For example "Calodema" are only found in Australia and New Guinea.
Beetles can be a huge pain in the *** when it comes to figuring out exactly what species of insect they are. Why? Because there are more of them than anything else. Right now, if memory serves there are about 350ish thousand recorded but they guess that are are a total of 4-8 MILLION species out there.
2007-09-10 06:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a wood-boring insect called a buprestid beetle or a
metallic wood-borer. The borer is the larval stage of the
insect, not the adult shown in your picture.
2007-09-10 05:28:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 23:43:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cockroach.
It must be a cockroach- look at Lolita's link and at the cockroach in the topmost picture- the flat head with the eyes on top, the plate armor-like part behind the head and the long abdomen covered by the wings.
I'll be damned- it's that borer thing.
2007-09-09 16:35:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think it is some sort of wood borer. Possibly the Euchroma gigantea. Giant Metallic Wood-boring Beetle.
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2007-09-09 16:51:01 · answer #5 · answered by kcpaull 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
By the looks of it, it is poison or stinks. Brightly colored insects animals etc are usually dangerous or emith foul odors.
Next time you see one, don't pick it up.
2007-09-12 14:38:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! What a beautiful creature! Let me know what it's called, 'kay?
2007-09-09 16:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by Cassandra 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's an insect, of the beetle variety. Exactly what it's name is I'm don't know! Sorry!!
2007-09-09 16:37:42 · answer #8 · answered by Carolyn T 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
wood borer i think
2007-09-09 20:35:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
looks like a tropical cockroach
2007-09-09 16:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by bob 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋