Ptosima undecimmaculata

Ptosima
Ptosima undecimmaculata var. sexmaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Buprestoidea
Family: Buprestidae
Genus: Ptosima
Species: P. undecimmaculata
Binomial name
Ptosima undecimmaculata
(Herbst, 1784)
Synonyms
  • Buprestis flavoguttata Illiger, 1803
  • Buprestis istria Voet, 1806
  • Buprestis novemmaculata Fabricius, 1775 nec Linnaeus, 1767
  • Buprestis sexpunctata Villers, 1789 nec Scopoli, 1763
  • Buprestis undecimmaculata Herbst, 1784 o
  • Ptosima cyclops Marseul, 1865
  • Ptosima flavoguttata (Illiger, 1803)
  • Ptosima intermedia Demaison, 1904
  • Ptosima pici Obenberger, 1926

Ptosima undecimmaculata, the Splendour beetle, is a species of beetles in the family Buprestidae. [1][2]

Subspecies and varietas

Description

Ptosima undecimmaculata can reach a length of about 9–14 millimetres (0.35–0.55 in).[4] The body is cylindrical and the head is much broader than long and narrower than the pronotum.

The Latin species name undecimmaculata indicates that the species should have eleven spots (lat. Undecimo = eleven, lat. Maculatus = stained). Normally the number of spots is different than eleven. This is due to the variety of spots in number, arrangement and form.

Pronotum is black, with longitudinal stripes of rugosity. Elytra are black with three pairs of lateral, yellowish-orange or reddish transverse markings, frequently with preapical maculae. Frons and pronotal disc occasionally may have maculae. [5]

Biology

Larvae develop for 2-3 years in wood of dead trees and bushes and in living branches of Prunus. Adults emerge in May-June. [6]

Distribution

This widespread species is present in most of Europe, in the Near East and in North Africa. [7]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of life
  2. ↑ Biolib
  3. ↑ P. undecimmaculata var. sexmaculata on Biolib
  4. ↑ Beetles and Coleopterologists
  5. ↑ Mark G. Volkovitsh, Vladimir Sakalian, Georgi Georgiev A Checklist and a Key to the Taxa of the Subfamily Polycestinae Lacordaire, 1857 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Bulgaria
  6. ↑ Forest pest
  7. ↑ Fauna europaea


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