Anthaxia nitidula (lat. Anthaxia nitidula)

Anthaxia nitidula
Anthaxia nitidula

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.

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Distribution

This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.

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Subspecies

Anthaxia nitidula nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758) Anthaxia nitidula signaticollis (Krynicky, 1832)

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