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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Anthaxia |
| Species: | A. nitidula |
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Anthaxia nitidula is a species of jewel beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae, subfamily Buprestinae.
Description
[edit]The adults are 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) long.[2] and are pollinators.[3] The male is completely metallic green, while the head and pronotum in the female are red and elytra are green. Main host plants of the wood-boring larvae[3] are in the genera Amygdalus, Crataegus and Prunus.[4]
Distribution
[edit]This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.[5]
Subspecies
[edit]- Anthaxia nitidula nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Anthaxia nitidula signaticollis (Krynicky, 1832) [1]
Gallery
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Female
References
[edit]- 1 2 Biolib
- ↑ Aramel.free
- 1 2 A. nitidula on Zabra.at Archived October 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Host plants of Buprestidae
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
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