Mushroom flat beetle
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The mushroom flat beetles (Biphyllidae) represent a family of the beetles (Coleoptera).
features
They are small, black to red-brown colored beetles with a body length between 2.3 and 3.3 millimeters. The upper side of the body is densely hairy and can have rows of dots ( biphyllus ) or stripes ( diplocoelus ). The antenna lobes can have two ( biphyllus ) or three limbs ( diplocoelus ). The legs are five-limbed with the fourth limb being the smallest.
Way of life
The mushroom flat beetles live on mycelium and are found mainly on fungal bark of deciduous trees or on tree fungi ( biphyllus ).
Systematics
Around 200 species are known worldwide; four species have so far been identified in southern Central Europe . In Europe there are a total of five species in two genera .
Genus Biphyllus Dejean , 1821
- Biphyllus frater (Aubé, 1850)
- Biphyllus lunatus (Fabricius, 1787)
- Biphyllus subellipticus (Wollaston, 1862)
- Biphyllus typhaeoides (Wollaston, 1862)
Genus Diplocoelus Guérin-Ménéville , 1844
- Diplocoelus fagi Guérin-Ménéville, 1838
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jiři Zahradník, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Käfer Central and Northwest Europe , Parey Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1
- ↑ Biphyllidae. Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007 , accessed on July 19, 2007 .
literature
- Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. Volume 3 p. 73, KG Lutz, Stuttgart 1911
- 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
