Black bombardier beetle
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Black bombard beetle ( Aptinus bombarda ) |
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The black bombardier beetle or Alpine bombardier beetle ( Aptinus bombarda ) is a ground beetle of the subfamily of the bombardier beetles (Brachininae).
description
The beetles are 9.5 to 15 millimeters long. Its body is elongated, black, only the antennae and legs are red. Your elytra do not cover the back of the abdomen . Like all bombardier beetles, the black bombardier beetle has an explosive device on its abdomen, which it uses to defend itself against predators by blowing irritating and foul-smelling gases from two tubes in its abdomen directly into the attacker's "face". A clear explosion bang can be heard (see bombardier beetle ).
Occurrence
In Central Europe , the beetles are only found in the southeast, west to Upper Bavaria , where they are less common, and in the eastern Alpine region only on soils that were not glaciated during the Ice Age .
credentials
- ↑ a b Heiko Bellmann: The New Cosmos Insect Guide, Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07682-2
literature
- Ekkehard Wachmann , Ralph Platen, Dieter Barndt: Ground beetle - observation, way of life , Naturbuch-Verlag Augsburg, 1995, ISBN 3-894-40125-7
Web links
- Aptinus (Aptinus) bombarda at Fauna Europaea