Oak deep-eyed buck

Oak deep-eyed buck
Oak deep-eyed buck, dark shape
Systematics
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera) Subordination : Polyphaga Family : Longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) Subfamily : Narrowbuckles (Lepturinae) Genre : Cortodera Type : Oak deep-eyed buck
Scientific name
Cortodera humeralis
( Schaller , 1783)

Oak deep-eyed buck, light shape

The Oak Deep eyes Bock ( Cortodera humeralis ) is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).

features

The beetles are 8 to 11 millimeters long and have a variable body color. There is a dark color variant, the wings of which are black or brown in color and each have two, rarely just one yellowish spot on each shoulder. The light color variant has yellow-brown cover wings with a dark wing cover seam .

Occurrence and way of life

They are found in much of Europe , but are absent in Northern Europe and the British Isles. They colonize deciduous forests and occur in May and June. Adults are often found sitting on bushes or flowering oaks. The larvae develop in dead wood in the litter, in fungal fallen wood and also in dead roots of deciduous trees close to the surface.

Different views

supporting documents

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Möller, Reiner Grube, Ekkehard Wachmann : The Fauna Käferführer I - Beetles in and on the forest . Fauna-Verlag, Nottuln 2006, ISBN 3-935980-25-6 , p. 200 .
2. ↑ Cortodera humeralis (Schaller 1783). Fauna Europaea, accessed October 15, 2009 . 

literature

• Georg Möller, Reiner Grube, Ekkehard Wachmann : The Fauna Käferführer I - Beetles in and on the forest Fauna-Verlag, Nottuln 2006, ISBN 3-935980-25-6 .

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