Magnificent salt beetle
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| Bledius spectabilis | ||||||||||||
| Kraatz , 1857 |
The magnificent salt beetle ( Bledius spectabilis ) is a beetle from the family of the short-winged beetles (Staphylinidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 5 to 7 millimeters. The front edge of the head shield is not bent up, the pronotum is extensive and punctured somewhat unevenly, its front angle is not pointed. Usually the disc on the pronotum has a non-dotted oblique fold. The horn of the pronotum is furrowed in the male. The legs are mostly brightly colored. The wings are brownish-red in color and together are as wide as they are long. They often have a dark scutellar spot.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed in the south of the Palearctic . It inhabits the coasts of the Caspian and Black Seas as well as the coasts of the Mediterranean region from Asia Minor to Morocco and Spain. The species is also found on the Spanish, Portuguese and French Atlantic coasts, the English Channel, the Irish Sea and the North Sea. It is missing on the German Baltic coast and in Norway. The species has been documented by finds from the south of Sweden ( Uppland ) and Gotland , but these are probably short-term settlements of the species. The species is also known from salty inland areas in southern Siberia, Turkestan , Iran and Central Europe.
literature
- A. Horion: Faunistics of the Central European Beetles Volume IX: Staphylinidae 1st part: Micropeplinae to Euaesthetinae, Ph.CW Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt ad Aisch, 1963.
- 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