Lesser silver water beetle
Small water beetle (hydro Chara caraboides )
The little water beetle sting or water beetles (hydro Chara caraboides ) is a beetle of the family of water beetles ( Hydrophilidae ).
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Features
The beetles reach a body length of 14-18 millimeters. Your oval body is shiny black in color and has a more or less strong greenish tinge. Rarely, there are emerald green, very rare yellow-brown colored individuals. The body surface is finely textured with dots and bears fine longitudinal rows and rows of larger dots. The base of the neck flange is straight. The palps and the basal joint of the antennae are yellow. The keel of the prothorax is spinous pulled backward, the ends of the metathorax behind the hips ( coxae ) of the hind legs.
Similar Species
- Hydro Chara flavipes
Occurrence and life
The animals come in the Palaearctic prior to central Sweden, southern Norway and Finland. In England they are only partially spread. They are found in small pools, ponds and dead tributaries of rivers, from the plains to the hills, sometimes in the mountains. They were once common, but are now very rare. Eggs are laid in cocoons as it can also be observed at the Great water beetle. The predatory larvae live near the water surface and digest their prey over water.