Acmaeops marginata

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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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

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

There are three varieties in species:^[2]

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