Coprophilus striatulus
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| ( Fabricius , 1793) |
Coprophilus striatulus is a beetle from the family of the short-winged species (Staphylinidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 5 to 7 millimeters. Their body is brown-black, the antennae , palps and legs are brown-red. The head and pronotum are finely structured, the pronotum is flat, slightly heart-shaped and has an upturned edge that is slightly notched.
Occurrence and way of life
The species occurs in Central Europe, southern northern Europe and northern southern Europe, as well as in North America. The southern distribution includes all of France, Switzerland, Italy from the southern slope of the Alps to Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany and the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula to Bosnia and Herzegovina . The northern distribution includes the British Isles , Denmark and the south of Norway, Sweden and Finland. In Central Europe, the species can be found in the lowlands down to low mountain ranges and valleys and is frequently encountered.
The larvae can be found from August, through autumn and winter through to spring, occasionally through May and June under rotting plant material and compost, especially on rotting beets , but also under the moist bark of deciduous trees. In winter, they often appear in cellars on rotting supplies (potatoes etc.), in stables and chaff, and in mole nests. The development to the adult animal is usually completed in the spring, it is not uncommon to find the animals swarming on house walls in the evening.
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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 .
- A. Horion: Faunistics of the Central European Beetles Volume IX: Staphylinidae 1st part: Micropeplinae to Euaesthetinae, Ph.CW Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt ad Aisch, 1963.
- 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