''Catoxantha opulenta'' is a species of ''jewel beetles'' belonging to 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 ...

, subfamily Chrysochroinae.

Subspecies

*''Catoxantha opulenta borneensis'' Kurosawa, 1993 *''Catoxantha opulenta opulenta'' (Gory, 1832)

Description

''Catoxantha opulenta'' can reach a length of about . This beautiful and quite common ''jewel beetle'' has metallic dark bluish-green elytra with thick and prominent black costae and two yellow transverse bands. Abdominal sternum is yellow. It bores the wood of '' Chukrasia velutina'' and '' Lagerstroemia speciosa''. The life-cycle is annual. Adults emerge in June.

Distribution

This beetle is present in Thailand, Malaysia, western Indonesia and Philippines.

References

Biolib

Forest Insects of India

Siam Insects
Buprestidae Beetles described in 1832 {{Buprestidae-stub