Yellow four-spotted buck
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Yellow ibis ( Pachyta quadrimaculata ) |
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The Yellow Vierfleck Bock ( Pachyta quadrimaculata ) is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).
features
The beetles are 11 to 20 millimeters long, with females having a more compact body than males. The animals have a black body and yellow elytra with two sharp-edged, large black spots. These can occasionally also be fused with one another, and there are also individuals who only have one patch per wing. It also happens that the front spot is elongated. The head and the pronotum are long, protruding yellow hairs, the pronotum is also very wrinkled dots. The wing covers are also dotted, coarser at the front than at the end of the abdomen. The species can be distinguished from the similar black-rimmed four-spotted buck ( Pachyta lamed ) by the continuously wrinkled, winglets that are reddish-brown in the males and the finely and weakly dotted pronotum.
Occurrence and way of life
The beetles are found in Europe and Asia, as far north as Denmark and central Finland . They are absent in the British Isles and the Netherlands . You can find them in the mountains and hills, they are not rare there. The adults can mainly be seen on forest paths, but also on umbel flowers from June to August. The larvae develop in coniferous wood and prefer spruce and pine .
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literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa and Edwin Möhn: The Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
- Jiri Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 .