Cicindela sylvicola

Mountain Tiger Beetle ( Cicindela sylvicola )

The Mountain Tiger Beetle ( Cicindela sylvicola ) is a beetle of the subfamily of the tiger beetles ( Cicindelinae ).

Features

The beetles are with 12 to 17 millimeters in length slightly greater than the Dune Tiger Beetle ( Cicindela hybrida ), but they are confusingly similar. They differ from them by hairs that C. sylvicola grow between the compound eyes. The elytra are greenish - copper color and have white or yellow spikes binding ( spots). The first two terms of the labial palps are yellowish, the end link is dark. The first antennal segment has numerous bristles.

Occurrence

The mountain tiger beetles is mainly used in central Europe to central Italy and in South Eastern Europe before on sunny, dry forest paths, on loamy soils in sand and gravel pits and quarries. But this only in a mountainous location, in the plane, this type does not occur. They can be found from April to August.

Way of life

Both the imagos and the larvae feed on insects. Mating occurs in June, from August already hatched the next generation.