Oedemera nobilis

Male Green Sparkle longhorn beetle ( Oedemera nobilis)

The Green Slip longhorn beetle ( Oedemera nobilis), also known as Blue-green leg beetle, is a beetle of the family of note longhorn beetle ( Oedemeridae ).

The green of the similar-looking species Greenish bill longhorn beetle ( Oedemera lurida ), Grey Green beetle leg ( Oedemera virescens) and Oedemera flavipes is significantly darker.

Features

The Green Slip longhorn beetle has a length of about 10 millimeters in size descriptions you will find information 8-15 millimeters. The antennae are as long as the body is about. Its soft body cover is glossy green, depending on the light with a metallic effect. The pronotum is as long as wide. The elytra, which have longitudinal ribs, reduce starting from the pronotum and diverge toward the abdomen, so that the lower wings are not completely covered. In the male beetles the hind legs are greatly thickened, in the female these thickenings absent. However, the strong thickening does not impair the ability to fly. Because of the club-shaped thickening often one of the names used the family of Oedemeridae, leg Beetle, Green for the type certificate longhorn beetle is being used.

Occurrence

The distribution area of ​​the Green Slip -horned beetle extends across southern and western Europe, with the exception of Ireland and the high Alps. In southern Europe it is more common than north of the Alps. In spring and summer you will find the beetle on flowers, which can be located on lawns, in hedgerows and in gardens and along forest edges.

Way of life

Green glow longhorn beetles are diurnal and feed on pollen and nectar occasionally. New food sources are visited on the fly. The larvae are found as endophytes in plant stems, such as in dead herbs, rotten wood and sunflower stalks. The larva grows in summer and pupate in autumn in a doll's cradle in the soil. Although the beetle is then fully developed in the fall, he hibernates in the chrysalis cradle to hatch the following spring.