Anthaxia hungarica

Shiny as a jewel 💎🪲
Anthaxia hungarica is a Buprestidae beetle, a family that includes some of the most beautiful insects. Its coloration is bright green 🪲, gold, blue, or purple. Solid and slender, it has a tapered body. It measures up to 15 mm in length.
Buprestids lay their eggs in wood where the larvae dig galleries.
Adults, on the other hand, feed on pollen, mostly from the Asteraceae family 🌸🌼.
⁉️ Did you know? 😲
Certain beetles of the Buprestidae family are so bright and flashy that they are used as jewels 💎 by some primitive tribes.
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