Saperda punctata
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| S. punctata female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Genus: | Saperda |
| Species: | S. punctata |
| Binomial name | |
| Saperda punctata (Linnaeus, 1767) | |
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Saperda punctata is a beetle species of flat-faced longhorns belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae.
The head, pronotum and elytra are greenish, with four black spots on pronotum and six black spots on each elytron.
This beetle is widespread in most of Europe and in the Near East. In Central Europe is a protected species, as in a vulnerable position owing to dying out of old elm trees Ulmus species), suffering from an elm disease (Tracheomycosis).
Larvae mainly feed under bark in dead trunks or large branches of elm (Ulmus species), but also of other deciduous trees such as oak and willow (Quercus and Salix species).
Larvae are wintering. The adults grow up to 11–18 millimetres (0.43–0.71 in) and can be encountered from May through August, completing their life cycle in one to two years.