Anthaxia nitidula
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Anthaxia nitidula | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Buprestidae |
Genus: | Anthaxia |
Species: | A. nitidula
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Anthaxia nitidula | |
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Anthaxia nitidula is a species of jewel beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae, subfamily Buprestinae.
Description
The adults are 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) long.[2] and are pollinators.[3] The male is completely metallic green, while the head and pronotum in the female are red and elytra are green. Main host plants of the wood-boring larvae[3] are in the genera Amygdalus, Crataegus and Prunus.[4]
Distribution
This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.[5]
Subspecies
- Anthaxia nitidula nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Anthaxia nitidula signaticollis (Krynicky, 1832) [1]
Gallery
References
- ^ a b Biolib
- ^ Aramel.free
- ^ a b A. nitidula on Zabra.at Archived October 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Host plants of Buprestidae
- ^ Fauna Europaea
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