Scaphidium quadrimaculatum
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Scaphidium quadrimaculatum is a beetle from the subfamily of the boat beetles (Scaphidiinae). The species is the only representative of the genus Scaphidium in Europe.
features
The beetles reach a body length of 4.5 to 6 millimeters. Their shiny black body is broad, short and oval in shape. The pronotum tapers conically to the front, the sides are not constricted. In front of the base it has a roughly punctiform, transverse arched line and is very finely dotted in front of it. The upper wings each have two red transverse spots and are otherwise finely sculptured in a confused manner. Basal is a shortened transverse line that is roughly dotted. The head is almost smooth. The wing top seam is deeply indented. The rails ( tibia ) are very slightly curved.
Occurrence and way of life
The species occurs in Europe in the north to England, Denmark, southern and central Sweden, southern Finland and Karelia . The southern distribution extends to the south of France, Italy and the Balkan Peninsula . The species is rather rare in northern Central Europe, more common in the west and south. The species is common in Austria. The animals can be found on wood with fungal infestation, dead trees, rotting and fungal branches on the ground, on tree sponges and in the moss and litter, often together with cross-banded mushroom beetles . They can also be found very rarely on rotting leaves and tube mushrooms .
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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 .
- 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 Reich (= digital library . 134). Neusatz and facsimile of the 5-volume edition Stuttgart 1908 to 1916. Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-534-7 .
