Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: AGAPANTHIINI
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
In Europe a very common species developing in a variety of herbaceous plants (eg. Carduus, Urtica, Angelica, Chaerophyllum, Artemisia, Salvia, Aconitum). Like the other species of Agapanthia genus, the larvae of this beetle develop in the above-ground plant tissues (stalks). They cut off the plant stalk before pupation, create the pupal cells near ground level, and the adults leave the stalks via a newly created exit hole in the side of the remaining stalk.
Body length: 10 - 22 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - August Host plant: polyphagous in herbaceous plants Distribution: Europe, Russia, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Near East
The depicted beetle was collected on Urtica in Zbečno (Central Bohemia).Collected by M.Hoskovec
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Subfamilia: Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus: Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839
Genus: Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835
Subgenus: Epoptes Gistl, 1857
Species: Agapanthia (Epoptes) villosoviridescens (De Geer, 1775)