Matt black flower buck
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Matt black cone ( Grammoptera ruficornis ) |
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The matte black flowers Bock ( Grammoptera ruficornis ), also Rothörniger flowers Bock called, is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae). It is one of 25 species of its genus in the Palearctic , five of which are found in Europe.
features
Characteristics of the adults
This tender, small longhorn beetle grows to be 4.5 to 7 millimeters long. The body is elongated and slightly narrowed towards the rear. The upper side is colored black and has very fine gray, yellow-gray or greenish hairs. The legs and antennae are partly yellow-brown in color. The matt black flower buck differs from similar species of the genus in that the second antennae is significantly longer than it is wide.
Specimens with dark antennae and legs from Azerbaijan were described as the subspecies Grammoptera ruficornis obscuricornis Kraatz , 1886.
Characteristics of the larvae
The body and head of the larvae of the genus are similar to those of the genus Dinoptera , but the body is white instead of gray and covered with finer and shorter bristles. They reach a length of about 11 to 14 millimeters with a width of the head capsule concave on the sides of about 2 millimeters. The body is more or less flattened. There are only three large stemmata on either side of the head capsule . The antennas are short and two-part, the third antenna element is missing. The rear edge of the pronotum has no bristles. The dorsal ampoule on the seventh abdominal segment is well developed and the ninth abdominal segment has no caudal spine at the end of the body.
Distribution area
The matt black flower buck lives in central and southern Europe as well as in southern northern Europe and the British Isles. In Central Europe it is generally to be found frequently, in Germany and Austria it has been found in all federal states and in Switzerland it is also considered widespread. In the east it is distributed as far as Russia, Asia Minor and the Caucasus. The beetle prefers low and montane locations. In the Alps it rarely exceeds 1000 meters. It is quite common in Germany , especially in warmer areas.
Way of life
The species is found in May to August and especially June and July on flowers such as hawthorn and umbelliferae . The development takes place in dry branches of hardwood. Called willow , poplar , alder , hazel , spindle tree , hawthorn, ivy , hibiscus , alder , linden , walnut , barberry , oak , black locust , hornbeam and gorse .
Systematics
The matt black billy beetle is a separate species of the longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) and is classified in the genus Grammoptera Audinet-Serville , 1835 within the narrowbuckle (Lepturinae). The first scientific description comes from the entomologist Johann Christian Fabricius , who described it as Leptura ruficornis in 1781 . In addition to this species, the genus contains numerous other species. Further synonyms of the species are Leptura atra Fabricius, 1775 nec Scopolii, 1772 and Grammoptera atra ( (Fabricius) Vives, 2001 ), Leptura clavipes Geoffroy, 1785 , Leptura femorata ( Olivier, 1795 nec Fabricius, 1787 ), Leptura laevis Herbst, 1784 , Leptura parasina Thunberg, 1784 , Leptura pumila Schaller, 1783 , and Leptura rufipes Goeze, 1777 .
The name for the genus is derived from the Greek “ gramma ” for “line” and “ pteron ” for “ wing ”, which refers to the relatively narrow wings. The epithet “ ruficornis ” comes from Latin and is made up of “ rufus ” for “red” and “ cornu ” for “horn”.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b "20. Genus: Grammoptera Serville. “In: Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica. The beetles of the German Empire. KG Lutz, Stuttgart 1912; P. 15. ( digitized version )
- ↑ a b c d e f g "Species: Grammoptera abdominalis (Stephens, 1831) - Black Blossom Buck ." In: Bernhard Klausnitzer, Ulrich Klausnitzer, Ekkehard Wachmann, Zdeněk Hromádko: The longhorn beetles of Central Europe . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 499, Volume 2, 4th edition. VerlagsKG Wolf, Magdeburg 2018, ISBN 978-389432-864-1 ; Pp. 389-390.
- ↑ a b Bernhard Klausnitzer, Ulrich Klausnitzer, Ekkehard Wachmann, Zdeněk Hromádko: The longhorn beetles of Central Europe . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 499, Volume 1, 4th edition. VerlagsKG Wolf, Magdeburg 2018, ISBN 978-389432-864-1 ; Pp. 105-107
- ↑ Grammoptera ruficornis. Fauna Europaea, accessed July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Grammoptera ruficornis on biolib.cz; accessed on June 24, 2020.
literature
- "Species: Grammoptera ruficornis (Stephens, 1831) - matt black flower buck ." In: Bernhard Klausnitzer, Ulrich Klausnitzer, Ekkehard Wachmann, Zdeněk Hromádko: The longhorn beetles of Central Europe . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 499, Volume 2, 4th edition. VerlagsKG Wolf, Magdeburg 2018, ISBN 978-389432-864-1 ; Pp. 389-390.
- 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
