Metrioptera buyssoni (Saulcy, 1887)


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Habitat:
Metrioptera buyssoni inhabits humid sites like seldom mown meadows, woodland-margins and extensively managed pastures, usually with tall forbs, between about 1000 and 1600m.

Life cycle:
The adults are quite shy and hide fast in the most often high-growing forb stands. They appear in summer and autumn.

Remarks:
Metrioptera buyssoni is endemic to the central Pyrenees. It is almost fully restricted to the French part. Only in the Vielha region very few sites are known also on the Spanish side. I recorded Metrioptera buyssoni on a forb-dominated wet pasture in an altitude of almost 1100 m northwest of Bagnères-de-Luchon. Metrioptera buyssoni was accompanied by many Stethophyma grossum.



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