Acmaeodera brevipes
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Acmaeodera brevipes is a beetle from the family of the jewel beetle and the subfamily Polycestinae . The genus Acmaeodera is represented in Europe with 25 species, which are divided into three sub-genera. Acmaeodera brevipes is included in the subgenus Acmaeodera , which is represented in Europe with five species. The species Acmaeodera brevipes occurs in Europe only in the subspecies Acmaeodera brevipes brevipes .
 
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Notes on names and synonyms
The beetle was first described in 1858 by Kiesenwetter after it was found near Athens under the name Acmaeodera brevipes , which is still valid today . The Latin short description contains the phrase pedibus brevis ( Latin with short feet ). This explains the species name brevipes from Latin brevis, short and pes, foot. Kieswetter compares acmaeodera brevipes with the similar kind acmaeodera cuprifera (now acmaeoderella vetusta ) in which the tarsus are longer than brevipes .
The generic name Acmaeodera goes back to Eschscholtz in 1829. He is from old gr. ακμαίος "akmāīos" for "strong" and δέρη "dére" for "neck" derived. Eschscholtz distinguishes the genus “by the pronotum cut straight at the back” from similar genera.
The beetle described by Marseul in 1865 as a separate species Acmaeodera praecox is now classified as a variant of Acmaeodera brevipes brevipes .
Properties of the beetle
The beetle reaches a length of 7.5 to twelve millimeters. It is dark copper-colored and slightly shiny. It has protruding gray hairs, on the underside as well as on the head and pronotum the hair is denser, on the wing covers it is directed backwards.
The head is obsolete , the forehead is covered with hair. The eyes are big. The eleven-part antennae are strong and only indistinctly sawed.
The pronotum is almost three times as wide as it is long. It is also obsolete, but less densely punctured than the head. The pronotum is thick, long and hairy gray. A longitudinal furrow is only weakly developed. At the base, the pronotum is only moderately impressed across, and there are three dimples in the transverse impression. The sides of the pronotum are almost completely bordered with a fine, fairly straight edge. Seen from above, the sides of the pronotum are only slightly expanded behind the middle.
One label is missing.
The elytra are flatter and narrower than the pronotum. They are about twice as long as together wide and over three times as long as the pronotum. They taper continuously from the base to the end, hardly at first, but clearly behind the middle. The elytra have clear stripes of dots, the intervals are flat and dotted. When viewed from the side, the margins of the wing covers behind the shoulders are not cut out. Towards the end the margins are serrated. The elytra are monochrome, usually somewhat darker than the pronotum (Fig. 1 left), or they have small brownish spots (Fig. 1 right). Obenberger describes the variant distigma with two small spots, the variant praecox has several, small, less noticeable yellow-brown spots.
The chest and the base of the abdomen are densely punctured, the abdomen sharply punctured towards the end.
The legs are weak and pubescent gray haired. The five-part tarsi are relatively short.
The species Acmaeodera pilosella belongs to the cylindrica group within the subgenus Acmaeodera . Genital morphologically, the species of the cylindrica group in the male sex have a strongly sclerotized penis with triangular small lamina, in the females the ovipositor is very short and clearly sclerotized (see Volkovitch for details).
biology
The beetle can be found on the blooms of various flowers. Experiments with different colored traps (black, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, white) in Bulgaria showed that the beetles were almost exclusively caught in white traps. For Greece the finds are between the beginning of April and the end of July, for Bulgaria the occurrence of the beetles is given from May to September. For Bulgaria “up to 600 meters” is mentioned as altitude. The larvae develop in the wood of oaks .
distribution
The subspecies Acmaeodera brevipes brevipes is common in the Mediterranean. She is known from Albania , Macedonia , Bulgaria , Greece , European Turkey and the Middle East . Top Berger describes acmaeodera abeillei from Algeria as a new species. Synonym for abeillei described also by Odenberger is abeilleana used. However, the two synonyms are now considered to be the subspecies Acmaeodera brevipes abeilleana . Obenberger describes Acmaeodera brevipes saducaea from Israel as a further subspecies . The species is also distributed in North Africa and east beyond the Pontomediterranean fauna area to the Turanian-Central Asian area (Iran, Iraq).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fauna Europaea systematics and distribution of Acmaeodera brevipes , accessed on September 27, 2017
- ↑ a b H. v. Kiesenwetter: Contribution to the beetle fauna of Greece - Fourth piece in Berlin entomological journal 2nd volume (1858) Acmaeodera brevipes p. 242
- ↑ Sigmund Schenkling: Explanation of the scientific beetle names (species)
- ↑ Fauna Europaea Synonymy Acmaeodera cuprifera with Acmaeoderella vetusta , accessed on October 4, 2017
- ^ Sigmund Schenkling: Nomenclator coleopterologicus 2nd edition, Jena 1922
- ↑ Friedrich Eschscholtz: Zoological Atlas 1. Issue Berlin 1829 P. 9 in the Google book search
- ^ A b Marseul: Monograph des Buprestides in L'Abeille - Mémoires d'Éntomologie tome II, Paris 1865 Acmaeodera brevipes p. 292 Acmaeodera praecox p. 284
- ↑ a b Edmund Reitter : Overview of the species of the Coleoptera genus Acmaeodera Eschsch known to me . from Europe and neighboring countries in Entomological News XVI. Volume No. 22 Berlin 1890 p. 338
- ↑ a b c Jan Odenberger: Catalog raisonné des Buprestides de Bulgarie in communications from the royal. scientific institutes in Sofia - Bulgaria Volume V, Sofia 1932, p. 15 ff Acmaeodera brevipes p. 39
- ↑ М. Г. Волкович (MG Volkovitsh): Оьэор палеарктических грурр златок трибы Acmaeoderini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) (Revision of Palaearctic groups of the tribe Acmaeoderini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)) in ЭНТОМОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ОБОЗРЕНИЕ (Revue d'Entomology de l'USSR) LVIII, 2, 1979 S 342 or English translation from Research gate cylindrica group p. 86
- ↑ Mark G. Volkovitsh, Vladimir Sakalian, Georgi Georgiev: A checklist and a key to the taxa of the subfamily Polycestinae Lacordaire, 1857 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Bulgaria in Acta Zoologica Bulgaria 67 (4), 2015: 471-478, p 476
- ^ Charles Kerremans: Monograph des Buprestides Tome II, London, Bruxelles, Berlin 1906 Acmaeodera brevipes p. 218
- ↑ Vladimir Sakalian, Mario Langourov: Color traps a method for distributional and ecological investigations of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) , Acta Soc. Zol. Bohem. 68, 53 - 59, 2004 ISSN 1211-376X [1]
- ↑ a b H.Mühle, P. Brandl, M. Niehuis: Catalogus Faunae Graeciae; Coleoptera: Buprestidae Printed in Germany by Georg Rößle Augsburg 2000 p. 16, 53
- ↑ a b Vladimir P. Sakalian: A Catalog of the Jewel Beetles of Bulgaria - Coleoptera, Buprestidae Pensoft 2003, ISBN 954-642-172-3 p. 16, distribution species / subspecies in the Google book search
- ↑ Jan Obenberger: New Acmaeoderen in Entomologische Blätter 1914, Issue 9-12 p. 251 Acmaeodera abeillei
- ↑ Subspecies of Acmaeodera brevipes
- ↑ Jan Obenberger: Insecta Houškeana: Buprestidae (Col.) in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae , 1946, XXIV, 308 p. 12 Acmaeodera brevipes saducaea
- ↑ Vladimir Sakalian, Mario Langourov: Fauna and Zoogeography of Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) in Bulgaria in Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria doi: 10.1007 / 978-1-4020-5781-6_10 [2]
