CLOSED: Jewel Colored Beetle?

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jimenez West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10a) Jun 07, 2013

Saved this colorful bug from drowning in a bucket of rain water. He flew away after I took a photo. Who knows the name?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 07, 2013

This is a female rainbow scarab beetle, Phanaeus vindex - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpilla001/2976145740/
See http://www.inaturalist.org/photos/41183 for a male of the same species.

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BajaBlue Rancho Santa Rita, TX(Zone 8a) Jun 07, 2013

mayate in Spanish

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jimenez West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10a) Jun 08, 2013

A beauty. Thanks!

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