Oxyporus

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Oxyporus
Red robber (Oxyporus rufus)

Red robber ( Oxyporus rufus )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera)
Subordination : Polyphaga
Family : Kurzflügler (Staphylinidae)
Subfamily : Oxyporinae
Genre : Oxyporus
Scientific name
Oxyporus
Fabricius , 1775

Oxyporus is a genus of beetles from the family of the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) within the subfamily Oxyporinae . It occurs in Europe with four types, two are also native to Central Europe. The genus is the only one of the subfamily Oxyporinae in Europe.

features

The beetles are brightly colored and have a large head that is wider than the pronotum and large mandibles . Your temples are delimited towards your back by a curved impression. Your wing covers have fine margins, a seam strip and two to three poorly defined point strips.

Occurrence and way of life

The animals live in forests and in the bushes on cap mushrooms .

Species (Europe)

swell

Individual evidence

  1. Oxyporus. Fauna Europaea, accessed May 31, 2009 .
  2. ^ Karl Wilhelm Harde, Frantisek Severa and Edwin Möhn: Der Kosmos Käferführer: The Central European Beetles. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1 .

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 .
  • 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 .