Anthaxia nitidula
| Anthaxia nitidula | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Subfamily: | Buprestinae |
| Genus: | Anthaxia |
| Species: | A. nitidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Anthaxia nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Anthaxia nitidula is a species of jewel beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae, subfamily Buprestinae.
Description
Female
The adults are 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) long. [2] and are pollinators. [3] The male is completely metallic green, while head and pronotum in the female are red and elytra are green. Main host plants of wood-boring larvae[3] are in genus Amygdalus, Crataegus and Prunus. [4]
Distribution
This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the East Palearctic ecozone, in the Near East and in the North Africa. [5]
Subspecies
- Anthaxia nitidula nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Anthaxia nitidula signaticollis (Krynicky, 1832) [1]