Brightly colored plaster runner
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Brightly colored plaster runner ( Anchomenus dorsalis ) |
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The brightly colored plaster runner ( Anchomenus dorsalis , Syn . : Platynus dorsalis ) is a small, characteristically colored ground beetle . It was founded by Erik Pontoppidan 1763 described .
features
The beetles have body lengths of 5.8 to 7.5 mm. The head and thorax are metallic green. The very finely ribbed wing covers, which are also shimmering blue-green, each have a rust-red field that widens outwards from the wing cover seam. Anchomenus dorsalis has red-yellow legs; the antennae, which are also red-yellow at the base, become darker towards the ends. The head is just as wide as the pronotum, the latter being significantly longer than it is wide.
distribution and habitat
The species has a western Palearctic distribution area that extends from the British Isles across Central Europe to Central Asia. To the north the area of the species extends to southern Sweden and Finland. The brightly colored plaster runner is eurytopic . It prefers loamy, not very shady, bushy slopes and extensively managed rowing habitats, but can also be found on the edges of forests, under hedges, in fields, in gardens and cemeteries. The species occurs from the lowlands to mountain valleys.
Way of life
The diet consists mainly of aphids , caterpillars and other small insects. The wintering often takes place in large groups of adults under stones. Occasionally, however, the animals overwinter individually or together with other species.
Danger
The species is not endangered and widespread.
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literature
- Ekkehard Wachmann, Ralph Platen, Dieter Barndt: Ground beetles: observation - way of life. Naturbuch Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89440-125-7 : pp. 234-235
- Jiři Zahradník, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Käfer of Central and Northwestern Europe , Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1