Brychius
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Brychius elevatus |
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Brychius is a genus of beetles from the family of water treaders (Haliplidae). It occurs in Europe with two types, in Central Europe Brychius elevatus is common.
features
The beetles differ from the other genera of the treaders in their body shape. Your pronotum is square and broadest in front of the center or has parallel edges. The basal lines are extended to the front to the front edge. The cover wings are elongated and ovate, they lack an unpunctured sutural strip.
Occurrence and way of life
The animals live in slow flowing streams.
Species (Europe)
- Brychius elevatus (tank, 1794)
- Brychius glabratus (A. Villa & JB Villa, 1835)
swell
Individual evidence
literature
- Adolf Horion : Faunistics of the Central European beetles. Volume 9: Staphylinidae. Part 1: Micropeplinae to Euaesthetinae. Aug. Feyel, Überlingen 1963.
- Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica. The beetles of the German Reich (= digital library . 134). Neusatz and facsimile of the 5-volume edition Stuttgart 1908 to 1916. Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-534-7 .