Anthaxia nitidula

Anthaxia nitidula
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)
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]

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

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