Mycteridae
The Haarscheinrüssler ( Mycteridae ) are a family of beetles dar.
Features
The beetles have a dark stocky body is covered with dense hair and fine on the top and reach a body length of five to ten millimeters. The head is slightly elongated snouts or snout, the pronotum is transverse bell-shaped and narrowed from the base to the front. The elytra are dotted irregularly. The penultimate Tarsenglied lobed, the claws have a tooth. On Basalrand of the pronotum is located on each side a small Punktgrübchen. The sensors are seemingly zwölfgliedrig, the eleventh member is, however, cut off and deceives two terms ago.
Occurrence
The Haarscheinrüssler are found primarily in warm dry slopes as flower visitors in thistles.
System
In Europe, the family of Haarscheinrüssler is represented only by the genus Mycterus and three species in Central Europe only occur in two ways. Previously they were together with the Scheinrüsslern ( Salpingidae ) into the family of dragons beetle ( Pythidae ) classified.
Genus Mycterus
- Mycterus tibial Küster, 1850
- Mycterus umbellatarum (Fabricius, 1787)
- Mycterus curculioides (Fabricius, 1781)