Abstract

Objective: The beetle family Buprestidae (jewel beetles) includes about 15,000 species and has a number Worldwide ‎distribution. Julodis speculifer is one of these species, for the first time Recorded in south Basrah province. Methods: Collected specimens were from March 2022 to November 2022, AL-Zubair region, The main characters adopted: compound eyes, carving face, antennal cavities, flagellum, scape, pronotum, scutellum, elytra, membrane wing, abdomen, and ‎male genitalia. Results: Body adult beetles Large sized, elongated, oval in shape, resembling a boat, slightly convex at the dorsal, brown to shiny copper, with white spots in the form of parallel lines on all parts of the dorsal surface body, all parts of the body are covered with a light white fluff. The male is smaller in size than the female. Conclusions: They were diagnosed did not have traits that differed from the species recorded in Kuwait, but different subspecies in Saudi Arabia.