Scaphisoma assimile
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| Erichson , 1845 |
Scaphisoma assimile , formerly Scaphosoma a. , is a beetle from the subfamily of the boat beetle (Scaphidiinae).
features
The beetles reach a body length of two millimeters. The suture strip of the cover wing runs differently than that of the mushroom barge beetle ( Scaphisoma agaricinum ) up to the pronotum and bends outward in front of the base, only to stop at about half of the base. The upper wings are conspicuously narrow and clearly punctiform structured. They are colored black, towards the tips a red-brown or broad yellowish border is formed. The fourth link of the antennae is almost as long as the fifth.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is common in Europe and the Caucasus . The northern distribution extends to the middle of Scandinavia and the south of Finland, the southern border extends in southern France and Italy to the Mediterranean. The animals are mostly not common in Central Europe.
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Web links
- Fauna Europaea - Scaphisoma assimile Erichson
- Photo of Scaphisoma assimile on macrogamta.lt (Lithuanian)
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