Ptinella denticollis
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Ptinella denticollis is a beetle from the family of dwarf beetles (Ptiliidae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of 0.8 millimeters and are therefore slightly smaller than the similar Ptinella limbata . The head is significantly narrower than the pronotum . This is about twice as long as it is wide. The posterior angles of the pronotum end in a sharp corner, the sides of the shield narrow in a uniform, convex arc up to the posterior angles, the disc has no elongated impressions. The females have flat, pigmentless compound eyes .
Occurrence and way of life
The species is particularly common in western and southern Europe. The distribution ranges in the north from the British Isles and Denmark via Sweden and Finland, in the south from Spain via France and Italy to Austria, Germany and Poland. It is missing on the Balkan Peninsula, with the exception of evidence in Croatia and Greece. The animals live in rotten dead wood and in mole nests.
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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 Empire. 5 volumes, Stuttgart KG Lutz 1908–1916, digital library volume 134, Directmedia Publishing GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-898-53534-7