Plate VII | The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home (1858) | Henry Noel Humphreys
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Plate VII | The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home (1858) | Henry Noel Humphreys
Callidium violaceum longhorn beetle I met on Saturday, chilling on a nettle leaf
Violbuk (Callidium violaceum)
Violet Tanbark Beetle (Callidium violaceum)
Violbuk (Callidium violaceum)
Violbukken er knyttet til dødt men frisk nåletræ. Larven lever i det yderste vedlag på nyligt fællede nåletræstammer, og arten kan derfor findes nær savværker og i brændestabler med relativt frisk nåletræ. På grund af kravet til træsets friskhed, forekommer violbukken ikke nødvendigvis det samme sted flere år i træk.
Violet Tanbark Beetle (Callidium violaceum)
The Violet Tanbark Beetle requires dead but fresh conifers for its larvae. These live in the outer layers of wood and just beneath the bark of such freshly cut down trees. Thus this species is found near sawmills and in woodpiles with relatively fresh conifer wood.
Due to the requirement for the tree to be fresh this species is not necessarily found in the same location year after year.
This creature here (Callidium violaceum) is called papintappaja in Finnish. Papintappaja means priest's killer.