Shiny slender ladybug
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Shiny slender ladybug ( Coccidula rufs ) |
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The Shining Slim Ladybug ( Coccidula rufa ) is a beetle from the family of ladybugs (Coccinellidae). These small, single-colored ladybugs live in wetlands across Europe. They are also called red reed ladybugs .
description
The shiny slender ladybirds are 2.5 to three millimeters long and have an elongated body with parallel side edges. This is red-brown in color, with the pronotum clearly darker in color. There are rarely specimens with a dark spot behind the scutellum or in the back of the wing . The underside of the animals are partly black. Their compound eyes are large, the antennae are long and have somewhat thickened end links.
Due to their elongated shape and single-colored wing covers, the beetles are not immediately recognizable as a typical ladybug species. The monochrome wing-coverts distinguish them from the closely related species of the spotted reed ladybug ( Coccidula scutellata ), which has a similar body shape but is characterized by dark dots or spots. The basic color of the spotted reed ladybug is lighter red than that of the glossy slender ladybug.
Occurrence and way of life
The beetles occur all over Europe except in the far north and are also native to Asia ( Turkey ) up to an altitude of about 1000 meters. They live in wet areas on marsh and aquatic plants .
They eat aphids that they hunt on the aquatic plants, namely Hyalopterus pruni , a species from the tube aphid family that not only lives on Prunus species such as blackthorn , but also on reeds ( Phragmites australis ), stilt reeds ( Arundo donax ) and the blue pipe grass ( Molinia caerulea ).
The wintering takes place in the reeds.
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa: The Kosmos Käferführer. The Central European beetle. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 2000 ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
- Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 .
Web links
- Coccidula rufa at Fauna Europaea
- Coccidula rufa description and Dutch distribution map (nl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard and Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, 4th edition, Magdeburg 1997, page 63
- ↑ Atlas of Ladybirds of Russia photo
- ↑ Shiny slender ladybug photo of the beetle's ventral side
- ↑ GBIF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Distribution map
