Green-striped ground beetle
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The green-striped ground beetle is a beetle from the family of ground beetles (Carabidae). The species is sometimes referred to as the disguised ground runner.
features
The beetles reach a size of 4.5 to 6.5 millimeters and have a yellow basic color. He is of rounded stature and relatively tall. There are irregular, metallic green spots on the head and pronotum as well as on the wing covers . The pronotum tapers towards the front, a label is not visible. The first and second forefoot pegs of male beetles are widened, and this can occasionally be seen on the first phalanx of the metatarsus.
The shape of the green-striped ground beetle is reminiscent of a representative of the ladybird , which is unique for a ground beetle species in Central Europe and thus makes it unmistakable within this fauna .
Occurrence
The green-striped ground beetle is widespread in the Palearctic , in the north it can be found as far as Denmark , the south of Sweden and the south of England ( Sussex ). Like the other species of the genus, it is found in bodies of water, e.g. B. on sandy and stony substrates on river banks, but also around Lake Neusiedl in Austria and Hungary.
Way of life
During the day, the beetles hide, sometimes in societies, in sand tubes. The flying animals are nocturnal and hunt insects. Young beetles can be seen in autumn, they hibernate. In Germany, the population sizes vary from state to state. In the Red List of Endangered Animals in Germany, the green-striped ground beetle is on the pre-warning list (V).
Taxonomy
Omophron limbatum was first described by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1776 . A synonym is Omophron corcyreum JR Sahlberg, 1903
Name declaration
Two interpretations are possible: from (h) omophrōn, -on (Gr., Ὁμόφρων) "harmonious" (because he is often found sociable), or, with Sigmund Schenkling 1917, from ōmophrōn, -on (ὠμόφρων) "wild" ( because he runs wild in the sunshine). The notion that omophron is neuter is not impossible, but unusual (Latreille might have thought; add entomon or coleopteron , "insect" or "beetle"). However, it is impossible to derive a subfamily name "Omophrinae" - it must be Omophroninae in any case); limbatus (lat.) "hemmed".
credentials
- ↑ Jiři Zahradník, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Käfer Central and Northwest Europe , Parey Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1
- ↑ Gerd Müller-Motzfeld (Ed.): H. Freude, KW Harde, GA Lohse & Bernd Klausnitzer: Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Volume 2, Adephaga 1: Carabidae (ground beetles). - Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-8274-1551-9
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Ed.): Red List of Endangered Animals in Germany. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-896-24110-8
- ↑ Omophron limbatum (Fabricius 1776). Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007 , accessed on July 12, 2007 .
literature
- Ekkehard Wachmann , Ralph Platen, Dieter Barndt: Ground beetles - observation, way of life . Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1995 ISBN 3-894-40125-7 .
