Copper bronze [1] [2] [3] ( Protaetia cuprea ) - a beetle from the family Lamellar (Scarabaeidae).
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Description
Length 16-25 mm. The upper side of the body is smooth, glassy-shiny or oily-shiny, emerald green, bluish green, olive green or reddish green. The head is more or less light, copper-violet, clypeus in front bluish-violet, lateral border of pronotum , and often lateral border of elytra light of light copper-violet color. Narrow border on the base of the pronotum and elytra suture, partly scutellum - mainly with copper tint Pygidium , the lower side of the body, the legs of the mesothorax are copper-purple, copper-violet or blue-violet. The body is without a white pattern, rarely on the lateral posterior edges of the abdominal sternites there are small white spots. Knee white spots are more or less reduced [4] .
The body is not wide, moderately convex, slightly narrowed back. The head is covered in dense large points. Pronotum slightly convex, covered with very small, sparse dots. The shield is smooth. Elytra elongated, slightly convex, somewhat narrowed backward. The suture space of the elytra is elevated with a weakly developed sharp rib, not separated on the outside by a groove or by a series of points. The parietal space is covered with rare small dots, the posterior parasitic space is in numerous, practically merging, small arcuate or simple points. The sides of the chest are almost bare. The anterior process is naked, smooth, protruding forward, with a very rounded front edge, covered with very rare small dots. The back coxae of the legs are covered with dense arcuate wrinkles. The lateral surface of the hind coxae is covered with rather thick simple small dots [4] .
Protaetia cuprea obscura
Protaetia cuprea obscura
Protaetia cuprea phoebe
Protaetia cuprea ignicollis
Range
The range covers southern France , southern Switzerland , Austria , Hungary , Romania , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , the Balkan Peninsula , Corsica , Sicily , Sardinia , Italy , Cyprus , and Near East Asia , also found in Cairo [4] .
Notes
- ↑ The life of animals . Volume 3. Arthropods: trilobites, chelicerae, tracheal breathing. Onychophors / edited by M. S. Gilyarov , F. N. Pravdin, Ch. ed. V. E. Sokolov . - 2nd ed., Revised. - M .: Enlightenment , 1984.- 463 p. - 300,000 copies.
- ↑ Bronze bronzes // Botoshani - Variolit. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1951. - P. 151. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. S.I. Vavilov ; 1949-1958, vol. 6).
- ↑ Fabre J. A. Life of insects. Stories of the entomologist / Abbr. translation by N. N. Plavilshchikov . - M .: Uchpedgiz, 1963 .-- 460 p.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Medvedev S.I. Lamellar (Scarabaeidae). Subfamilies Cetoniinae, Valginae. Fauna of the USSR. Coleoptera. T. X, no. 5. M.-L., Science. 1964 - 376 p.