Acmaeops marginata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cerambycidae |
Genus: | Acmaeops |
Species: | A. marginata
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Binomial name | |
Acmaeops marginata | |
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Acmaeops marginata is a species of the Lepturinae subfamily in the longhorn beetle family. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781 [2] and is known from Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Baltic states, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, [3] China, Mongolia, and Montenegro. Adult beetle feeds on Scots pine, and Norway spruce. [2]
Adults of this species are brown-black in colour and 7–11 millimetres (0.28–0.43 in) long. They fly from May to June during which months they feed on various Pinus species. [4]
There are three varieties in species: [2]