Micridium halidaii
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Micridium halidaii is a beetle fromthe dwarf beetle family (Ptiliidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 0.5 to 0.6 millimeters. Your body is elongated and slightly arched. It is finely and loosely haired and colored shiny red-yellow. The top of the body is indistinctly structured in a punctiform manner. The pronotum is almost as wide as the wing and rounded on the sides. The elongated egg-shaped wing covers have two dark elongated stripes, which are caused by the translucent second pair of wings below.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is common in northern and central Europe. The southern limit of distribution runs from France via Switzerland and Austria to Slovakia, Poland to Russia. It is missing in the far north. The animals live in rotting wood and in the sludge of oaks .
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literature
- A. Horion: Faunistics of the Central European Beetles Volume II: Palpicornia - Staphylinoidea, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1949.
- 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 .