Common horned beetle
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Common longhorn beetle ♂ ( Oedemera femorata ) |
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The common longhorn beetle or common thigh beetle ( Oedemera femorata ) is a beetle from the family of the common longhorn beetle (Oedemeridae).
features
The beetles are 8 to 10 millimeters long. They are dark in color and have yellow-brown wings that narrow towards the back and the sides and thus do not cover the entire abdomen. The males have widened the thighs like a club, the legs of the females are normal.
Occurrence
The beetles are found in large parts of Europe . They are common, especially in the south.
Way of life
The adults are very good fliers and feed on pollen . They usually sit on the sunlit forest edges on flowering shrubs and meadow flowers. The larvae eat dry stems and roots of herbaceous plants in which they develop. They pupate in the ground and hibernate before hatching as beetles in early summer.
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde, František Severa: The Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
