Coprophilus
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Coprophilus striatulus |
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| Latreille , 1829 |
Coprophilus is a genus of beetles from the family of the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) within the subfamily Omaliinae . It occurs in Europe with six types, two of which also occur in Central Europe.
features
The beetles have an elongated and flattened, almost hairless body. Your head is narrower than the pronotum , the temples are short and parallel. The pronotum has two egg-shaped oblique impressions in front of the scutellum and a central furrow in front of it. The wing panels are slightly wider than the pronotum and longer than together wide. They have irregularly arranged point furrows and their tip edge is dotted unevenly arranged in elongated lines. The abdomen has parallel edges, is finely structured and finely hairy. The tarsi have five limbs, the rails ( tibia ) of the middle legs are thorny.
Occurrence and way of life
The animals live on rotting plant material, in compost and manure. The adults are often observed, especially in spring, and they are not infrequently sitting on building walls.
Species (Europe)
- Coprophilus striatulus (Fabricius, 1793)
- Coprophilus drugmandi Tóth, 1991
- Coprophilus pennifer (Motschulsky, 1845)
- Coprophilus piceus (Solsky, 1867)
- Coprophilus schubertii (Motschulsky, 1860)
- Coprophilus solskyi Bernhauer, 1908
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Coprophilus. Fauna Europaea, accessed May 31, 2009 .
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa and Edwin Möhn: Der Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa and Edwin Möhn: The Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
- 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 .