Gyrinus marinus
Gyrinus marinus (illustration)
Gyrinus marinus is a beetle of the family of whirligig beetles ( Gyrinidae ).
Features
The beetles reach a body length from 4.5 to 7 millimeters. Your body is colored matte black on the upper side; they have at most a very weak metallic luster. The underside is fully or partially dark-colored and has a metallic shimmer. The elytra bear strong, often fine uniform rows of dots. These are somewhat more delicate and inward everywhere on the base finely chagrined ( with grain pattern ). The tip of the elytra is not just truncated. Basal is another short, oblique, consisting of three points number next to the tag ( scutellum ). The Epipleuren both the pronotum and the elytra are metallic and shiny. The legs are yellow, the claw member is brown.
Occurrence
The species is widespread in northern Europe. It comes from the British Isles over Denmark, the south of Norway, Sweden and Finland ( Lapland to ) prior to the north of Russia. To the south extends the spread from France to Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Northern Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland to Russia. One finds the kind in the Balkans. In Central Europe it is widespread, being often, in the south on the other hand is rare in the north. For "sea" it has - contrary to the name - no relation.