Sternocera orissa Buquet, 1837 is a animal in the Buprestidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Sternocera orissa Buquet, 1837
Sternocera orissa is a beetle species with dark base elytra, found across several countries in southern and eastern Africa.
Sternocera orissa, formally named Sternocera orissa Buquet, 1837, reaches an adult body length of approximately 35 to 45 millimeters, which equals 1.4 to 1.8 inches. The base color of this species’ elytra is either greenish-black or bluish-black, and it has whitish to yellowish eyespots and other markings. This species is distributed across Botswana, southern Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.
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Dicerca tenebrica (Kirby, 1837)
Texania fulleri (Horn, 1875)
Acmaeodera tubulus (Fabricius, 1801)
Buprestis consularis Gory, 1841
Sternocera aequisignata Saunders, 1866
Acmaeodera solitaria Kerremans, 1897
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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