Oedemera flavipes
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Oedemera flavipes , ♂ |
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Oedemera flavipes is a beetle fromthe longhorn beetle family (Oedemeridae).
features
The beetles are five to nine millimeters long and are dark gold-green in color. Your deck wings are strongly narrowed towards the rear and gape apart. In contrast to the females, the males have thighs that are strongly club-shaped.
Occurrence
The animals live on sunny forest edges and meadows and are very common in places. They fly from May to August.
Way of life
The adults often sit on flowering plants on which they eat pollen , the larvae develop in stems of herbaceous plants and feed on the plant tissue.
literature
- Heiko Bellmann: The New Cosmos Insect Guide , Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07682-2
Web links
Commons : Oedemera flavipes - album with pictures, videos and audio files
