Brown sting beetle

Brown sting beetle
Brown sting beetle ( Dicladispa testacea )
Systematics
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera) Family : Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) Subfamily : Shield beetle (Cassidinae) Tribe : Hispini Genre : Dicladispa Type : Brown sting beetle
Scientific name
Dicladispa testacea
( Linnaeus , 1767)

The brown sting beetle ( Dicladispa testacea ) is a beetle from the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae).

description

The brown sting beetle is 4-5 millimeters long, has a brown basic color and a hedgehog-like wing cover and pronotum decorated with spines. The somewhat smaller black sting beetle ( Hispa atra ) differs from this species only in its black color. The sting beetle with the scientific name Mordella aculeata is not related to them.

Distribution and way of life

The sting beetle imitates small fruits of plants with its numerous thorn-like appendages distributed over the whole body. He lives in dry, grassy places. The larvae mine in grasses. In places it is found quite often on shrubs in the Mediterranean area, the species is absent in Central Europe.

literature

• Heiko Bellmann: The New Cosmos Insect Guide . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag GmbH & Co., Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07682-2 .
• Jiři Zahradnik: The Cosmos Insect Guide . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag GmbH & Co., Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-09388-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dicladispa testacea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dicladispa testacea at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved March 22, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dicladispa testacea in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved March 22, 2016
2. ↑ Hispa atra at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved March 22, 2016