False Bilster Beetle

Description:

A narrow and elongate species with proportionally long elytra, Head, thorax and elytra brilliant metallic green appearing blue at some angles. Appendages black with a metallic green reflection. Head with fine punturation which is denser laterally and basally, pubescence pale and recumbent, in our specimen directed towards centre of vertex. Front margin of clypeus brown, clypeus and labrum produced forward. Front margin of eyes weakly emarginate but not encompassing antennal insertions. Antennae 11 segmented in both sexes, inserted in front of eyes.

Habitat:

Adults have been recorded from Acer, Crataegus and Salix, and from the flowers of Sorbus and various umbels. Larvae develop in reasonably soft rotting wood of a range of broadleaved trees, they have been recorded from Acer, Castanea, Fagus, Fraxinus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix and Ulmus.