''Megaloxantha bicolor'' is a species of metallic wood-boring

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

s in the family

Buprestidae 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 ...

Description

''Megaloxantha bicolor'' is a huge Buprestid reaching a length of about . The basic colour of these beetles is usually metallic green, but may be blue, reddish or blackish, with two basal and postmedian large yellow or whitish bands. The pronotal sides are usually bright orange-yellow.

Distribution

This species can be found from

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and the

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Subspecies

* ''Megaloxantha bicolor arcuatifasciata'' Kurosawa, 1978 * ''Megaloxantha bicolor bicolor'' (Fabricius, 1778) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor brunnea'' (Saunders, 1866) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor gigantea'' (Schaller, 1783) (

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor hainana'' Kurosawa, 1991 * ''Megaloxantha bicolor luodiana'' Yang & Xie, 1993 * ''Megaloxantha bicolor matsudai'' Endo, 1992 (

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor nigricornis '' (Deyrolle, 1864) (

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor nishiyamai'' Endo, 1992 (

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor ohtanii'' Kurosawa, 1991 (

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor palawanica'' Kurosawa, 1978 (

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor porphyreus'' Hou & Wu, 1996 (

) * ''Megaloxantha bicolor sakaii'' Kurosawa, 1991

Gallery

File:Megaloxantha.bicolor.gigantea.mounted.jpg , '' Megaloxantha bicolor gigantea '' from India. Mounted specimen from Cologne Zoo, Germany File:Buprestidae - Megaloxantha bicolor-2.JPG, ''Megaloxantha bicolor'' from

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

File:Megaloxantha bicolor porphyreus - 08-10-15 - Dambri - Bao Lam - Lam Dong - Vietnam - 68mm.JPG, ''Megaloxantha bicolor porphyreus'' from

References

Biolib

External links

World Field Guide
Buprestidae Beetles described in 1775 Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{Buprestidae-stub