Haliplus wehnckei
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Haliplus wehnckei is a beetle from the family of water treaders (Haliplidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 2.5 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 stripes on the rows of dots. 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 and shaped as a groove, as the edges are slightly raised. The prothorax is flat. The pronotum bears a clear, gradually interrupted transverse impression in the middle between the basal spines, dotted more closely next to the lines.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed in northern and central Europe, east to Siberia and Mongolia. 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 .