Blue buck (beetle)
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Blue buck ( Carilia virginea ) |
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The Blue Bock ( Carilia virginea , Syn. : Gaurotes virginea ) is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).
description
The beetles are 9 to 12 millimeters long. They are very compact for longhorn beetles and have round, green or blue metallic shining wing covers at the back . The pronotum is black, rust-red or black with a rust-red spot.
Occurrence
They occur frequently all over Europe , just not in the southwest, especially in the mountainous regions of southern and central Germany . They are rare in the north and can be found in Siberia , Mongolia , Manchuria , Korea, and Sakhalin .
Way of life
The larvae live in pines or spruces. They dig into the earth to pupate. The beetles appear from May to August, but especially in June, and fly to flowers.
literature
- Bernhard Klausnitzer / Friedrich Sander: The longhorn beetles of Central Europe . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 499. A. Ziemsen Verlag, GDR Wittenberg Lutherstadt, 1981, ISSN 0138-1423
- Adolf Horion : Faunistics of the Central European Beetles, Volume XII: Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles . Ueberlingen, 1974
- Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 .
