Abstract
This study includes study on 138 specimens of a flat-headed borer Lampetis mimosa (Klug) 1829 (Buprestis) collected from Basrah province, southern Iraq. These were collected from March 2019 to April 2021. The morphological characters analysed include those of head, thorax and abdomen (females and males). The distinguing characters include body strongly chitinized, elongate, subcylindrical and covered by fossae, with elytra bronze coloured having metallic shine. The specimens were observed attacking jujube trees Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.
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