Aulonogyrus concinnus

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Aulonogyrus concinnus
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Aulonogyrus concinnus

Systematics
Superclass : Six-footed (Hexapoda)
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera)
Family : Tumbler beetle (Gyrinidae)
Genre : Aulonogyrus
Type : Aulonogyrus concinnus
Scientific name
Aulonogyrus concinnus
( Klug , 1834)

Aulonogyrus concinnus is a beetle from the family of whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae).

features

The beetles reach a body length of 5.5 to 7 millimeters. Your body is shagreened on the top (grain pattern) and has a very fine point structure. The sides of the pronotum, including their turned-up area, the sides of the wings and their underside are colored yellow , as are the legs . The ventral side of the animals is bronze black, but the last sternite is rust red. The head is also bronze, but blue in the middle. The thighs ( femora ) of the hind legs are dark blue-green and have a copper-colored, laterally extended transverse band in the middle. The cover wings are provided with bronze-colored longitudinal furrows, with the furrows being shorter on the sides of the body. The eighth and tenth furrows are narrow, flat and dull in color.

Occurrence

The species is distributed in southern and western Europe, Trans Caspia , the Caucasus , Asia Minor , Syria, Iraq and Iran, Turkestan and east to the Amur region. In the north, the species occurs sporadically in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and northern Germany.

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literature

  • Adolf Horion : Faunistics of the Central European Beetles Volume I: Adephaga - Caraboidea, Hans Goecke Verlag, Krefeld, 1941.
  • 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