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]

Acmaeops marginata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Acmaeops
Species:
A. marginata
Binomial name
Acmaeops marginata
(Fabricius, 1781)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acmaeops marginatus var. seminiger Schaeffer, 1965
  • Acmaeops marginatus var. totusniger Demelt, 1966
  • Leptura marginata Fabricius, 1781 nec Müller, 1766
  • Acmaeops marginatus (Fabricius) Villiers, 1978 (misspelling)

Description

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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]

Subtaxa

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There are three varieties in species:[2]

  • Acmaeops marginata var. bicoloripes Pic
  • Acmaeops marginata var. immarginata Plavilstshikov
  • Acmaeops marginata var. spadicea Pic, 1904

References

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  1. "Acmaeops marginata (Fabricius, 1781)". Cerambycidae of the World. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 BioLib Taxon profile — species Acmaeops marginata (Fabricius, 1781)
  3. "Acmaeops marginatus (Fabricius, 1781)". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  4. "Acmaeops marginatus (Fabricius, 1781)". Cerambyx. Retrieved 28 March 2015.