Black-horned spotted buck
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Black-horned spotted buck ( Brachyta interrogationis ) |
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The black- horned spotted beetle ( Brachyta interrogationis , syn .: Evodinus interrogationis ) is a longhorn beetle of the northern Palearctic .
description
The 9 to 18 millimeter long beetle is quite compact for a longhorn beetle. It is black and has variable yellow and black markings on the wing covers. Usually the elytra are yellow with an approximately L-shaped black longitudinal spot, but there are localized variations with almost completely black to almost completely yellow coloring.
Occurrence
The species occurs with large distribution gaps from France via Siberia to Japan. In Europe it is boreomontane and inhabits Scandinavia and northern Russia in addition to the higher mountains. It is missing in southern Europe. German sites are in the Alps , in the Fichtelgebirge , Franconian Forest , Vogtland and Erzgebirge . It is widespread in Austria and Switzerland, but is absent in the north-eastern Alps.
Way of life
The larva develops in one to two years on plants such as forest cranesbills , peonies or fireweed . The diurnal beetle flies on mountain meadows from June to August and visits flowers.
literature
- 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
Web links
- Black horned spotted buck at www.uochb.cas.cz
- Brachyta interrogationis in Fauna Europaea