Spermodea lamellata

Bees basket ( Spermodea lamellata ) ( Jeffreys, 1830)

The bees basket ( Spermodea lamellata ) is a terrestrial snail from the family of grass worm ( Valloniidae ); The family belongs to the order of terrestrial snails ( gastropod ).

Features

The housing is spherical with niedrigkegeligem Apex. It measures about 2 × 2 mm in size and 5.5 to 6 whorls. The turns are rounded, and the umbilicus is narrow and deep. The surface is covered with distinct, almost perpendicular to the coil axis ribs. The ribs are outgrowths of the organic periostracum and therefore can only be seen on fresh copies. In weathered specimens they are missing. The ribs, the housing appears slightly iridescent. It is honey -yellow to golden brown. The mouth is round to oval and the aperture rim is not thickened, rather thin and fragile.

Occurrence, lifestyle and dissemination

The bees Cup lives in old deciduous and mixed deciduous forests in moderately moist soil litter. The distribution area can be described as a North Western European -Atlantic. It ranges from Portugal to the British Isles and north-east to north-eastern Poland. In the north, the distribution area attracts up to northern Norway.

System

The bees Cup is the type species of the genus Spermodea Westerlund, 1903., The German common name comes from the similarity of the case with old beehives ago.