Sphenoptera rauca

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Sphenoptera rauca
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Sphenoptera rauca, Morocco
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Buprestoidea
Family: Buprestidae
Subfamily: Chrysochroinae
Genus: Sphenoptera
Species:
S. rauca
Binomial name
Sphenoptera rauca
(Fabricius, 1787)

Sphenoptera rauca is a species of beetles in the family Buprestidae. [1]

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Subspecies

Description

Sphenoptera rauca can reach a length of 13–15 millimetres (0.51–0.59 in). Main host plants are Cynara and Eryngium. [2]

Distribution

This species can be found in Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, formerYugoslavia and in the Near East. [3]

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