Clytus arietis
Real Aries Bock ( Clytus arietis )
The Real Aries Bock, Bock Common Aries or wasp beetle ( Clytus arietis ) is a beetle of the family of longhorn beetles ( Cerambycidae ). It is the most common type of its kind in Central Europe, yet he is virtually all longhorn beetle species in the Federal Species Protection Ordinance recognized as particularly protected.
Features
The beetles reach a body length of 7 to 14 mm. Your body is colored black and wearing a yellow pattern similar to that of a wasp, the size and the course varies. Depending on a fine band runs along the front and rear edge of the pronotum and a transept spot is located behind the shoulder, towards the outer edge of the wing covers. In the middle of the cover wing is a forward curved towards the middle cross-belt, a further straight runs later. The ends of the wing covers are just as the tag ( scutellum ) completely yellow. The short pronotum is slightly curved and broadly rounded on the sides. Its surface is fine-grained structured and wrinkled. The elytra are very finely punctured. The first Tarsenglied of the hind legs in the male is much longer, with the female slightly longer than the rest together. The legs are colored orange brown, the legs ( femurs ) are obscured in some or all legs. The sensors are also colored orange-brown, darkening towards the tip. This distinguishes the species from the very similar Clytus lama, in which the sensors are uniformly colored and also not thickened. The yellow spots are slightly oblique behind the shoulders.
Occurrence
The species is in central and southern Europe, north to northern Denmark, Central Norway and Sweden, Finland and the south east of the Caucasus, about Trans Caucasus to the Middle East spread. It also occurs in the British Isles. The animals inhabit deciduous forests from the lowlands to the low hill country, are ubiquitous and are not rare, even locally common. They fly from May to July.
Way of life
The adults can be found at flower-visiting, especially on umbelliferous plants and hawthorns and even of dead wood of deciduous trees. The larvae live in dry branches of hardwoods, such as oak, beech, white thorns or fruit trees. They develop initially between the bark and the wood and eat deep to pupation into the wood. You need two years to develop.