Blue-green barrel neck

Blue-green barrel neck
Blue-green roller neck buck ( Phytoecia caerulea )
Systematics
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera) Subordination : Polyphaga Family : Longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) Subfamily : Weber bucks (Lamiinae) Genre : Phytoecia Type : Blue-green barrel neck
Scientific name
Phytoecia caerulea
( Scopoli , 1772)

The Blue-green roll neck Bock ( Phytoecia caerulea ) is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) and the subfamily Lamiinae . The scientific name can be confused with Phytoecia coerulescens .

description

The beetles are 8 to 12 millimeters long. They are metallic green to blue or blue-violet, in a south-eastern variant the square pronotum has a red spot in the center. The head and the pronotum are protruding, the wing covers are hairy. The hair is light and does not cover the body color.

Occurrence

They are common in areas on dry grassland and roadsides.

Way of life

The larvae develop in cruciferous stems .

literature

• Heinz joy, Karl Wilhelm Harde, Gustav Adolf Lohse (ed.): The beetles of Central Europe . tape 9 . Cerambycidae Chrysomelidae . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8274-0683-8 (first edition: Goecke & Evers, Krefeld 1966).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phytoecia caerulea in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved January 29, 2012

Web links

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