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Wood's Jewel Scarab
Chrysina woodi
Chrysina woodi, or Wood's jewel scarab, is a species of shining leaf chafer in the family of beetles known as Scarabaeidae. This bright green beetle is native to Chihuahua in Mexico, and New Mexico and Texas in the United States. This beetle is 25–35 mm (1.0–1.4 in) long and it resembles C. beyeri, but that species has all blue-purple legs and tarsi (in C. woodi, the legs are green and the tarsi blue).
The name was first published in the minutes of a meeting in 1884 as woodi, in advance of the formal description of the species as woodii in 1885, but under ICZN Article 50.2, the 1884 name and spelling take precedence.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1507967.