About Saperda punctata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Saperda punctata, originally described by Linnaeus in 1767, reaches an adult body length of 11–18 millimetres (0.43–0.71 inches). Its head, pronotum, and elytra are greenish in color; it has four black spots on its pronotum, and six black spots on each elytron. This species is quite similar in appearance to Saperda octopunctata. This beetle is widely distributed across most of Europe, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine, as well as in the Near East. In Central Europe, Saperda punctata is a protected species. This protection comes in response to widespread declines in old elm tree populations caused by elm disease, also known as Tracheomycosis.
