Gorse bark beetle
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Gorse bark beetle ( Phloeophthorus rhododactylus ), enlarged 40 times. |
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The gorse bark beetle ( Phloeophthorus rhododactylus ) is a weevil from the subfamily of the bark beetle (Scolytinae). Since it creates its breeding systems in the bark of the host plants, it is assigned to the bark breeders.
features
The beetles are 1.5 to 1.8 millimeters long and have a black, barrel-shaped body covered with short, yellowish-gray hair. The pronotum and is wider than long and widely dotted with small depressions. Seen from above, it does not cover the head. The forehead is flat, has two small bumps and a semicircular, smooth dent over the mandibles and is only hairy on the edge. The wing covers are twice as long as they are wide. At their base, the wing covers are toothed, but behind without rows of cusps. The antennae and legs are light brown.
distribution
The species is found in Central and Eastern Europe, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and the Crimea.
Way of life
The broom-bark beetle comes in Sarothamnus vulgaris , Spartium junceum , gorse ( Ulex europaeus ) and Cytisus laburnum ago.
literature
- Fritz Schwerdtfeger : The forest diseases. Textbook of forest pathology and forest protection . 4th, revised edition. Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-490-09116-7
- Sabine Green : Manual for the determination of the European bark beetle Verlag M. & H. Schaper, Hanover 1979, ISBN 3-7944-0103-4
- Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. Volume 5, KG Lutz, Stuttgart 1916
- 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
