Tenebroides fuscus
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Tenebroides fuscus is a beetle fromthe hunting beetle family (Trogossitidae).
features
The beetles are 6 to 10 millimeters long. The entire body is severely flattened for life under bark. Their head, pronotum and wing are mostly black, more rarely brown. The head and pronotum have a very shiny, smooth surface on which puncture-like points are distributed. Longitudinal ribs run on the wing covers. The antennae are short and widened like a club.
Similar species
- Black grain warehouse ( Tenebroides mauretanicus )
Occurrence
The animals are widespread in the palaeartctic . They occur everywhere in Central Europe , but are rare.
Way of life
The animals live under the bark of dead trees.
Hazard and protection
The species is listed as 2 (endangered) in the Red List of Endangered Animals in Germany.
literature
Heinz joy, Karl Wilhelm Harde, Gustav Adolf Lohse (ed.): The beetles of Central Europe. Volume 7. Clavicornia. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich 1967, ISBN 3-8274-0681-1 , p. 16.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tenebroides fuscus (Preyssler, 1790) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF backbone taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-04-30
- ↑ a b Heinz Freude, Karl Wilhelm Harde, Gustav Adolf Lohse (ed.): Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Volume 7. Clavicornia. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich 1967, ISBN 3-8274-0681-1 , p. 16.
- ↑ Schmidl, Jürgen & Bußler, Heinz. (2004). Ecological guilds of xylobiont beetles: Use in landscape ecological practice - a processing status. Conservation and landscape planning. 36. p. 208.