Anthaxia nitidula is a species of jewel beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae, subfamily Buprestinae.
Description The adults are long.Aramel.free and are pollinators. A. nitidula on Zabra.at The male is completely metallic green, while the head and pronotum in the female are red and elytra are green. Main host plants of the wood-boring larvae are in the genera Amygdalus, Crataegus and Prunus.Host plants of Buprestidae
Distribution This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa.Fauna Europaea
Subspecies Anthaxia nitidula nitidula (Linnaeus, 1758) Anthaxia nitidula signaticollis (Krynicky, 1832)
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