Subgenus Stereosa Rank Species | Order Coleoptera Scientific name Buprestis splendens Higher classification Buprestis | |
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Similar Beetle, Buprestis, Insect, Buprestidae, Violet click beetle | ||
The Goldstreifiger (Buprestis splendens) is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae. It has a wide but scattered distribution from Western Europe to Russia; it is now extinct in Germany, Austria and probably Ukraine; it survives at three localities in Spain, two localities in Basilicata (Italy), Russia, Poland, southwestern Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and possibly Greece. It lives in sun-exposed Pinus forest, and is threatened with extinction by logging.
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