Red-bellied sniper beetle

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Red-bellied sniper beetle
Red-bellied sniper beetle (Athous haemorrhoidalis)

Red-bellied sniper beetle ( Athous haemorrhoidalis )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera)
Subordination : Polyphaga
Family : Click beetles (Elateridae)
Genre : Athous
Type : Red-bellied sniper beetle
Scientific name
Athous haemorrhoidalis
( Fabricius , 1801)
Dorsal view
Side view
Ventral view
Athous haemorrhoidalis on blade of grass

The Rotbauchige foliage beetle ( Athous hemorrhoidal ) is a beetle from the family of beetles (Elateridae).

features

The beetles are 9.5 to 15 millimeters long and have a dark brown colored body. The wings are usually a little lighter in color and occasionally each have a light spot. The cover wings are slightly grooved lengthways, the spaces in between are structured finely point-like. The sternites of the abdomen are either completely rust-brown or only at the edge. The top of the body is closely covered with silver or rusty gray hair. The pronotum is longer than it is wide, and its lateral edges are slightly curved. The wide rear corners have no keel. A very fine furrow runs along the middle of the pronotum to the middle or the front edge. The short antennae are dark brown and in the females do not reach the rear corners of the pronotum, in the male they reach half a link above it. The legs are colored brown-red, the third tarsal segment is lobed on the underside.

Occurrence and way of life

The animals occur in Europe, north to central Fennoscandia . In the east, it spreads across Asia Minor and the Middle East to Siberia . The species is also native to the British Isles . It lives in meadows, pastures, forests, fields and gardens. You can find the animals on bushes and trees, especially on the edge of the forest. They are very common and belong to the most common click beetle species in Central Europe. The females lay their eggs superficially on roots in the ground. The larvae develop on these and can sometimes also appear as pests . The wintering takes place as a young imago .

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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 .
  • Jiri Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 .

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