Haliplus confinis
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Haliplus confinis is a beetle fromthe water stepper family (Haliplidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 3.5 millimeters. The body is only slightly shiny and matt on the upper side and has a very fine point structure everywhere. The wings have fine dotted stripes and black vertical stripes, which are often interrupted and together form oblique spots. However, the longitudinal stripes are often not interrupted on the inner spaces. The pronotum is yellow, it lacks the dark transverse bands that the similar Haliplus varius has. Inclined basal lines are clearly developed on both sides of the center. The prothorax has a line-like border on the sides and finely dotted between the hips.
Occurrence and way of life
The species occurs in northern and central Europe, northern Italy and Serbia, east to Siberia . It is rare in Central Europe and only widespread locally. The animals live in clean, stagnant and slowly flowing waters.
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literature
- Adolf Horion : Faunistics of the German beetles. Volume 1: Adephaga - Caraboidea. Hans Goecke, Krefeld 1941.
- Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica. The beetles of the German Reich (= digital library . 134). Neusatz and facsimile of the 5-volume edition Stuttgart 1908 to 1916. Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-534-7 .