Grammoptera ustulata

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Grammoptera ustulata
Burnt-tip grammoptera, Fairview Lane, Tunbridge Wells imported from iNaturalist photo 39401235.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Grammoptera
Species:
G. ustulata'
Binomial name
Grammoptera ustulata'
(Schaller, 1783) [1]

Grammoptera ustulata is a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae. It is found in the Palearctic [2] (Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey [3] )

It is a small longicorn 5 – 9 mm.long. Adults are found feeding at Crataegus and other flowers in Spring and Summer. The larvae develop in fungi infested (especially Vuilleminia comedens branches of deciduous trees .

References

  1. Schaller, J.G., 1783 Neue Insekten. Abhandlungen der Hallischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 1: 217-332, Tab. I [= 1]. Dessau, Leipzig.
  2. Joy, N 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
  3. Fauna Europaea