Anthaxia nitidula

Anthaxia nitidula is a species of jewel beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae, subfamily Buprestinae.

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
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) [1]

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]

References


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