Copper colored grave runner
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Copper colored grave runner ( Poecilus cupreus ) |
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The copper-colored colored grave runner or coppery shoulder runner ( Poecilus cupreus ) is a beetle from the family of ground beetles (Carabidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 9 to 13 millimeters. They have a black body color and are very variable in color, usually with a reddish, bronze, green, blue or purple metallic sheen. The head, pronotum and its widened side edge are densely and strongly structured with dots. The base of the pronotum is more dotted than that of the similar species Poecilus versicolor . The legs are usually black, rarely brown or rusty red. The animals carry a row of 8 to 10 thin bristles on the inside of the rails ( tibiae ) of the hind legs. Poecilus versicolor has only five to eight bristles there, which are also thicker and shorter. The first three parts of the antennae are keeled, the first two parts being lighter than the rest.
Similar species
Occurrence
The animals are found in Europe and Asia . They can be found across the Caucasus , Asia Minor and Central Asia to western Siberia . The northern limit of the distribution area is the south of Norway , central Sweden and Finland . In the British Isles they only occur on the Isle of Wight . They live in damp places such as damp forest edges, on wet meadows and loamy, poorly overgrown fields and can be found under stones or wood. They are usually common, but rare at high altitudes.
Way of life
The adults hibernate. They feed mainly predatory, but occasionally also on vegetable food.
literature
- Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1
- Ekkehard Wachmann , Ralph Platen, Dieter Barndt: Ground beetles - observation, way of life. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-894-40125-7
