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Family: Carabidae
Size: 7.8 mm (6.0 to 9.0 mm)
Origin: From the western Mediterranean to the Middle East; from the Balkans to Hungary and Slovakia
Biology: Loves warmth in sunny but moist places. When harassed, a corrosive liquid squirts out of the rear end with a bang
Location: Iran, Rood-bar-Ghazvin, 1200 m
leg.det. H.J.Mager, 15.V.1970
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2024
Family: Staphylinidae
Description: Aedoeagus, 1.28 mm
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2018
Family: Staphylinidae
Size: 8.5 mm (6.5 to 8,5 mm)
Origin: Holarctic, boreomontan
Ecology: Lives under the bark of coniferous trees
Location: Germany, Bavaria, Upper Franconia, Selbitz, Foehrig
leg.det. U.Schmidt, 11.VII.2001
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2018
Family: Scarabaeidae (Aphodiidae)
Size: 4.0 mm (3.0 to 4.0 mm)
Distribution: Europe to Siberia
Biology: Lives saprophag in damp soils along the sea coast, lakes and rivers
Location: Germany, Lower Saxony, Borkum Island
leg.det. Bellmann, 16.VI.2001; Coll. J.Schoenfeld
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2017
Family: Curculionidae
Size: 6.0 mm (4.0 to 6.0 mm)
Distribution: Europe, especially in the coastal area
Biology: Lives of grasses
Location: England, Wales, Tenby
ex. J.J.Walker bequest 1939
Coll. Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2014
