Scaphidium quadrimaculatum
Scaphidium quadrimaculatum
Scaphidium quadrimaculatum is a beetle of the subfamily of beetles Kahn ( Scaphidiinae ). The species is the only representative of the genus Scaphidium in Europe.
Features
The beetles reach a body length of 4.5 to 6 millimeters. Your shiny black body is broad, short and has an oval shape. The pronotum is running forward to conical, the sides are not constricted. He has a gross basis before the point-like structured, cross arch line and is in front of very finely punctured. The elytra each bear two red cross marks and otherwise are finely sculptured convoluted punctiform. Basal is a shortened outward transverse line, which is roughly punctured. The head is almost smooth. The elytra seam is pressed hard. The rails ( tibiae ) are very weakly curved.
Occurrence and life
The species occurs in Europe in the north to England, Denmark, southern and central Sweden, southern Finland and Karelia ago. The southern distribution extends to the south of France, Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. The species is rather rare in the north central Europe, to the west and south more often. In Austria, the species is common. One finds the animals in wood with fungus, dead trees, rotting and fungus-infected branches on the ground, on tree sponges and moss and leaf litter, often together with cross -banded fungus beetles. Very often you can find them also on rotting leaves and fungi tube.