Oval dwarf beetle
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The oval dwarf beetle ( Nossidium pilosellum ) is a beetle from the family of dwarf beetles (Ptiliidae). The species is the only one of its kind in Central Europe.
features
The beetles reach a body length of 1 to 1.2 millimeters. Their oval body is glossy brown or reddish brown in color. The head is somewhat darker, the antennae , legs and palps are reddish-yellow. The head is very sparse, the pronotum and the wing plates are very strong, but are structured in a point-like manner relatively far apart. The base of the pronotum is finely rounded in a line.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed in the north of southern England across northern and central France, central Europe, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Ukraine and Belarus to Russia. In the south one finds the species in Spain and northern and central Italy as well as in the Caucasus . The species is not rare in Central Europe. The animals live in the sludge of hollow tree trunks, on mushrooms, especially tree sponges and also myrmekophil with Lasius brunneus .
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Web links
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa and Edwin Möhn: The Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .
- 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 Empire. 5 volumes, Stuttgart KG Lutz 1908–1916, digital library volume 134, Directmedia Publishing GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-898-53534-7