Nephus redtenbacheri

Nephus redtenbacheri
Nephus redtenbacheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Genus: Nephus
Species: N. redtenbacheri
Binomial name
Nephus redtenbacheri
Mulsant, 1846 [1]

Nephus redtenbacheri is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae. It is found in the Palearctic [2] (Europe, North Africa, European Russia, Ciscaucasia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Western Asia.[3][4]

In Central Europe this beetle lives in the grass layer and detritus, feeding on scale insects , aphids and, especially Psocoptera. It occurs also in marshes, including peatbogs, on marshy shores, in meadows, at wet forest edges, in flood-plain forests, and also in dry habitats such as karst, sandy and stone quarries, wastelands, and in fields.This is a rather rare species.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Mulsant, E. 1846. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Sulcicolles-Sécuripalpes. Paris: Maison xxiv + 26 pp. + 280 pp. + 1 pl.
  2. ↑ Joy, N 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
  3. ↑ N. B. Nikitsky and А. S. Ukrainsky , 2016 The Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Moscow Province ISSN 0013–8738, Entomological Review, 2016, Vol. 96, No. 6, pp. 710–735 ISSN 0013–8738 online pdf
  4. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  5. ↑ Koch, K., Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Ökologie. Vol. 2 (Goecke und Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 1989).


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