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Anthaxia nitidula

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Anthaxia nitidula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Anthaxia
Species: A. nitidula
Binomial name
Anthaxia nitidula
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Anthaxia agnusi (Mequignon, 1927)
  • Anthaxia canipennis (Gory, 1841)
  • Anthaxia grabowskyi (Obenberger, 1912)
  • Anthaxia lichacevi (Obenberger, 1930)
  • Anthaxia millefolii (Abeille de Perrin, 1894)
  • Buprestis laeta (Schaeffer, 1766)
  • Buprestis styria (Voet, 1806)

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

  • Female Female

References

  1. ^ Biolib
  2. Aramel.free
  3. ^ A. nitidula on Zabra.at Archived October 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Host plants of Buprestidae
  5. Fauna Europaea
Taxon identifiers
Anthaxia nitidula
Buprestis nitidula


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