Buprestis splendens

Goldstreifiger
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Buprestis
Subgenus: Stereosa
Species: B. splendens
Binomial name
Buprestis splendens
(Fabricius, 1775)

The Goldstreifiger (Buprestis splendens) is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae.[1] It has a wide but scattered distribution from Western Europe to Russia; it is now extinct in Germany, Austria and probably Ukraine; it survives at three localities in Spain, two localities in Basilicata (Italy), Russia, Poland, southwestern Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and possibly Greece.[1] It lives in sun-exposed Pinus forest, and is threatened with extinction by logging.[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mason, F., Campanaro, A., Horák, J., Istrate, P., Munteanu, N., Büche, B., Tezcan, S., Méndez, M. & Dodelin, B. (2010). "Buprestis splendens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
  2. http://discover.iucnredlist.org/species/3334