Oreina speciosa
| Oreina speciosa | |
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| Oreina speciosa excellens – male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Oreina |
| Species: | O. speciosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Oreina speciosa (Linnaeus, 1767) | |
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Oreina speciosa is a species of broad-shouldered leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Chrysomelinae.
This alpine leaf beetle lives in the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Vosges, Alps, Apennines and Balkans.
The adults are 9–13 millimetres (0.35–0.51 in) long. The colours of the elytra of this beetle are very variable, with varieties completely blue, purple, black or else bright metallic green crossed by longitudinal blue or red (or both) stripes.
It can be found on various Apiaceae species, mainly of the genus Laserpitium, Heracleum, Chaerophyllum, Peucedanum and Angelica. The activity period is June–August.
Subspecies
- O. speciosa bosniaca Apfelbeck, 1912
- O. speciosa excellens Weise, 1907
- O. speciosa ganglbaueri Jakob, 1953
- O. speciosa huberi Bechyné, 1958
- O. speciosa lugdunensis Weise, 1907
- O. speciosa pretiosa Suffrian, 1851
- O. speciosa pseudoliturata G. Müller, 1916
- O. speciosa speciosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
References
- Bontems, C., 1981 - Les especes de Linne et Fabricius du genre Oreina Chevrolat, 1837 (Col. Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) - Nouv. Rev. Ent. 11: 93-109
- Host-Plant Switches and the Evolution of Chemical Defense and Life History in the Leaf Beetle Genus Oreina. In: Evolution. 50, Nr. 6, Dezember 1996
- Triponez, Y., 2011 - Discordances between phylogenetic and morphological patterns in alpine leaf beetles attest to an intricate biogeographic history of lineages in postglacial Europe. - Mol.Ecol.20(11): 2442-2463