Dark goat
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| ( Linnaeus , 1758) |
The Dark ornamental Bock or mysterious ornamental Bock ( Anaglyptus mysticus ) is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).
description
The beetles are 6 to 13 millimeters long. The wing covers are red-brown in front, black in the middle with three oblique white bands and gray-bluish behind. The body is hairy and has a bluish base tone. The head and pronotum are dark and gray with hair. The legs are colored black, the feet and front rails are red-brown. The thighs are thickened to form a club and the first hind foot section is only slightly longer than the two following sections combined. The antennae are shorter than the body.
The appearance of the species is variable, so the dominant color of the wing covers and their drawing can vary. Black or almost reddish brown elytra with white markings can be observed (picture).
Occurrence
You can find them on the sunny edges of the forest , especially in southern Germany , towards the north they are becoming increasingly rare. The distribution area extends in the north to Denmark , southern Norway and central Sweden . In Great Britain the species is only represented locally. Further distribution areas are in North Africa and Transcaucasia .
Way of life
The beetles can be seen on the flowers of herbs and bushes of umbellifers, hawthorn , elderberry and dogwood .
The larvae live in dry branches of hardwoods such as oak , beech , elm , alder , hazel , robinia , elder , hawthorn and fruit trees . It takes two years for the larva to develop into a beetle and the beetle hibernates. The adults can be found from May to July.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Photos of specimens. St. Petersburg Zoological Institute, accessed January 23, 2008 .
- ^ Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung, Jarmila Hoberlandtova, Ivan Zpevak: Käfer Mittel- und Nordwesteuropas , Parey Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1
literature
- Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. Volume 4 p. 53, KG Lutz, Stuttgart 1912
- Edmund Reitter: Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. 5 volumes, Stuttgart KG Lutz 1908–1916, digital library volume 134, Directmedia Publishing GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-534-7
