Haliplus fluviatilis
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Haliplus fluviatilis is a beetle from the family of water treaders (Haliplidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 2 to 3 millimeters. Their body is elongated oval and rusty yellow to rusty red in color. The wings are broadest behind the shoulders, but gradually tapered towards the rear. They have black, partly interrupted stripes on the rows of dots, which are interrupted or shortened several times. These stripes are seldom widened and flow into one another, there are no horizontal flaws. The outer wings of the male are shiny and smooth at the base, the rear half of the females are very finely shagreened and therefore not shiny. The prosternal process between the hips of the forelegs is flat. The prothorax is also flat.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed in northern and central Europe and Siberia . It occurs in the north to Denmark and the south of Sweden and Finland, in the south the distribution extends from northern Spain to France, northern Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. It is widespread in Germany and not infrequent to frequent, in Austria it is less common. 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 .