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Buprestidae
Species: Chrysochroa ssp.?
Buprestidae
Species: Chrysochroa ssp. ?
 
Tapah Hills, Perak, Malaysia
Unusual red reflection on green cover
Tapah Hills, Perak, Malaysia

 

 

Buprestidae: Jewel Beetles
Species: Chrysochroa buqueti buqueti
 Buprestidae: Jewel Beetles
Species: Chrysochroa Toulgoeti

      A beautiful beetle found in both flowering
A most beautiful beetle with its metallic
trees in the jungle as well as in housing estates
coloration
Occurs in April
Occurs in April
        Tapah Hills,Perak,Malaysia
        Tapah Hills,Perak,Malaysia

 

Buprestidae: Jewel Beetles
Species: Megaloxantha bicolor nigricornis
 Buprestidae: Jewel Beetles
Species: Megaloxantha daleni kyoae

Widely distributed
Occurs mostly in April visiting flowering trees
Season: April
Differs from M.d. daleni on the underside
Other times hardly seen
where there is a metallic covering
Attracted to flower of durian trees
over its head and thorax which is
Swift flyer. Attractively coloured
absent in M.daleni daleni
 
Tapah Hills, Perak, Malaysia.

 

Buprestidae
Species: Belionita prasina
   
 
Common
Occurs both in the jungle and vicinity of towns
Smallish
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia