Actidium aterrimum
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Actidium aterrimum is a beetle from the family of dwarf beetles (Ptiliidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 0.5 to 0.63 millimeters. Its body is dull black, the antennae are dark rust-red, the legs are yellow. The elongated wings have parallel outer edges. They end in a common rounding. The pronotum is hardly narrower than the wing. The top of the body is provided with a barely perceptible point-like structure and also very finely haired like dust.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed sporadically in western, southern and central Europe as well as in the Caucasus . You can find the animals in moss and rotting plant material and under gravel on the banks of rivers.
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Web links
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa and Edwin Möhn: The Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
- A. Horion: Faunistics of the Central European Beetles Volume II: Palpicornia - Staphylinoidea, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1949.
- Edmund Reitter: Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. 5 volumes, Stuttgart KG Lutz 1908–1916, digital library volume 134, Directmedia Publishing GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-898-53534-7