Anthaxia nitidula Lat. “Anthaxia nitidula“
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. and are pollinators. 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 are in the genera Amygdalus, Crataegus and Prunus.
Distribution
This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.
Subspecies
Anthaxia nitidula nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758) Anthaxia nitidula signaticollis (Krynicky, 1832)
Gallery
Ancestry Graph
Further Information
„Anthaxia nitidula“ on wikipedia.org
„Anthaxia nitidula“ on iNaturalist.org
Copyright
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