Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Jewel beetle from Corsica
Posted by nick upton on 28-11-2010 16:38
#1
Can anyone identify this Buprestid beetle to genus/species? It looks quite like images I have found of Anthaxia millefollii polychloros, but there may be many similar species I'm unaware of.
29.5.2010 c 12mm feeding on Hawkweeds flowers at c500m in Corsica
Posted by rvanderweele on 06-12-2010 22:23
#2
I will ask Nikola. He should know this Buprestidae
Posted by rvanderweele on 06-12-2010 22:25
#3
thanks to Nikola: Anthaxia hungarica male
Posted by nick upton on 06-12-2010 23:49
#4
OK many thanks Ruud and Nikola. Seems I got the genus right. I think I saw some pics of A. hungarica but maybe of females which have purple margins to the thorax, and maybe mine is a male, as they are all green. The species name put me off as well, but I read it is common all around the mediterranean.
Posted by rvanderweele on 06-12-2010 23:50
#5
the species is known from Corsica as well, Nikola said
Posted by nick upton on 06-12-2010 23:57
#6
OK, that helps! Great to put a name to a beetle, there is an inordinate number of them out there!