Spotted neckbuck
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Spotted neckbuck ( Anoplodera sexguttata ) |
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The spotted neck buck , also six-tailed neck buck ( Anoplodera sexguttata , Syn . : Leptura sexguttata ) is a European longhorn beetle .
description
The beetle grows to 7 to 12 mm. It is black, the pronotum longer than it is wide. The elytra are drawn more or less yellow in different ways. The typical shape has three spots on each wing cover. At least between the shoulder bump and the label there is an elongated yellow spot. The elytra are only very rarely monochrome black.
Occurrence
The spotted neck buck occurs from southern Europe and north Africa across central Europe to southern northern Europe. In Germany it is a rather rare, heat-loving species. Its frequency decreases from south to north. It is also rare in Austria and only occurs there in the foothills of the Alps, whereas it is more common in Switzerland. He prefers small, sheltered valleys with old forests at low altitudes.
Way of life
The larva develops in two to three years in the rotten wood of oak, beech, alder and other hardwoods, exceptionally also in softwood. The beetles appear from May to August, especially in June. They fly at the edge of the forest and visit flowers, especially hawthorn , mountain ash , whitebeam and umbelliferae .
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
