Anthaxia nitidula

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Anthaxia nitidula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Anthaxia
Species:
A. nitidula
Binomial name
Anthaxia nitidula
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.

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Description

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

This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa. [5]

Subspecies

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