Weevil
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The false weevils (Salpingidae) are a family of beetles .
features
The beetles reach a body length of 2.5 to 4.5 millimeters and are reddish, black or metallic bronze in color. Some species are also bicolored. The head is drawn out into a wide, flat extension (see also weevils ). The antennae are eleven-limbed and deflected in front of the eyes. The pronotum is longer than it is wide and tapered in front and behind. The wing covers are almost parallel, sometimes widened in the middle or at the rear end and provided with fine rows of dots. The legs have the foot formula 5-5-4.
Occurrence
The pseudo-weevils are mainly found under the bark of deciduous or coniferous trees, some species also in the corridors of bark beetles . As predators, they eat beetles and their larvae living in the wood .
Systematics
The salpingidae were previously together with the Haarscheinrüsslern (Mycteidae) into the family of pythidae classified (Pythidae).
In Central Europe this group is represented by six genera with a total of 14 species. So far, 19 species from a total of seven genera have been identified in Europe. The false weevil family is divided into three subfamilies .
Subfamily Agleninae
- Aglenus brunneus ( Gyllenhaal , 1813)
Subfamily Lissodeminae
- Lissodema cursor ( Gyllenhaal , 1813)
- Lissodema denticolle ( Gyllenhaal , 1813)
- Lissodema lituratum ( Costa , 1847)
Subfamily Salpinginae
- Colposis mutilatus ( Beck , 1817)
- Rabocerus foveolatus ( Ljungh , 1823)
- Rabocerus gabrieli ( Gerhardt , 1901)
- Salpingus aeneus ( Olivier , 1807)
- Salpingus planirostris ( Fabricius , 1787)
- Salpingus ruficollis ( Linnaeus , 1761)
- Salpingus tapirus ( Abeille de Perrin , 1874)
- Sphaeriestes impressus ( Wollaton , 1857)
- Sphaeriestes aeratus ( Mulsant , 1859)
- Sphaeriestes bimaculatus ( Gyllenhaal , 1810)
- Sphaeriestes castaneus ( tank , 1796)
- Sphaeriestes exsanguis ( Abeille de Perrin , 1870)
- Sphaeriestes reyi ( Abeille de Perrin , 1874)
- Sphaeriestes stockmanni ( Biström , 1977)
- Vincenzellus ruficollis ( carapace , 1794)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jiři Zahradník, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Käfer Central and Northwest Europe , Parey Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1
- ^ Salpingidae. Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007 , accessed on July 20, 2007 .
literature
- Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. Volume 3 p. 414, KG Lutz, Stuttgart 1911
- 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 3-89853-534-7
