Red-legged rascal

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Red-legged rascal
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Red-legged neckbuck ( Anoplodera rufipes )

Systematics
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera)
Subordination : Polyphaga
Family : Longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae)
Subfamily : Narrowbuckles (Lepturinae)
Genre : Anoplodera
Type : Red-legged rascal
Scientific name
Anoplodera rufipes
Schaller , 1783

The Rotbeiniger neck Bock ( Anoplodera rufipes , Syn. : Leptura rufipes ) is a beetle from the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).

features

The beetles are 7 to 12 millimeters long. They have a black body with black wing-coverts . The first limbs of the legs are red, the others black. The pronotum, which is also black, is longer than it is wide and flattened.

Subspecies

  • Anoplodera rufipes izzilloi Sama, 1999
  • Anoplodera rufipes rufipes (Schaller, 1783)

Occurrence

The species occurs in Central Europe , the Balkans , Asia Minor and the Caucasus to Persia . In Central Europe it is quite rare everywhere, especially in the north. It prefers low mountain ranges.

Way of life

The larvae live in dry, dry twigs and branches of oaks , less often beeches and birches , on whose wood they feed. The beetles appear from May to June. They are mostly found on flowering shrubs such as hawthorn , mountain ash, and dogwood .

credentials

  1. ↑ Anoplodera rufipes izzilloi Sama 1999. Fauna Europaea, accessed June 5, 2007 .
  2. ↑ Anoplodera rufipes rufipes (Schaller 1783). Fauna Europaea, accessed June 5, 2006 .

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