Callidium violaceum

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| image = Callidium violaceum up2.jpg

| genus = Callidium

| species = violaceum

| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Callidium violaceum, commonly known as the violet tanbark beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.Bezark, Larry G. [http://plant.cdfa.ca.gov/byciddb/bycidview.asp A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827211041/http://plant.cdfa.ca.gov/byciddb/bycidview.asp# |date=27 August 2013}} It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.