Besser horse [1] [2] ( Latin Cephalota besseri ) is a species of beetles from the subfamily of horses of the ground beetles family. The species name was given in honor of Wilibald Gottlibovich Besser (1784–1842), an Austrian and Russian botanist and entomologist , doctor of medicine and professor of botany at Kiev University , and corresponding member (1835) of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
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Description
Beetles 14-16 mm long. Head wider than pronotum. The upper side of the body is bright green, the sides are often copper-red in color. Elytra with white pattern in the form of bandages [2] . The eyes are very large. The legs are long, slender. The mandibles are sickle-shaped, long, flat, with large teeth on the inner edge
Range
Ukraine (Odessa, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk regions), Crimea , southern Russia , western and northern Kazakhstan [3] .
In Crimea, it lives in the northern Sivash and in the north of the Kerch Peninsula , possibly on other Kerch salt marshes . In the Crimea and southern Ukraine, beetles live on moderately saline areas of the coasts of the sea, brackish lakes, estuaries, and occasionally in sandy and wormwood-fescue-grass steppes [1] .
Biology
Beetles are found from late May to late July. Active during the day, mainly in the hot hours of the day. Beetles and their larvae are active predators that prey on spiders and insects (small orthopterans , coleopterans , dipterans ). In pursuit of prey, they can quickly fly from place to place (range from several tens of centimeters to 4-6 meters). In case of danger, they also take off, flying off to a distance of several meters. Larvae live in vertical burrows, hunt from ambush - they catch insects and other arthropods running past burrows [1] [2] .
Security
It is included in the Red Book of Ukraine (2009) [1] , as well as in the Red Book of Crimea (2015). It is rare in Ukraine and the Crimea, but in some years it is a common species in some biotopes. The decrease in the number of species in these territories occurs as a result of the destruction and reduction of the natural habitats of the species as a result of land reclamation [1] [2] .
Literature
- Putchkov AV, Matalin AV Subfamily Cicindelinae // J. Lobl, A. Smetana (eds.). Catalog of palearctic
Coleoptera. - Stenstrup: Apollo Books, 2003. - Vol. 1. Archostemmata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. - P. 99-118.
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Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Chervona book of Ukraine. Tvarinny svit / Pid tanned. ed. І. A. Akіmova. - K .: Globalconsulting, 2009 .-- 624 p.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Red Book of the Republic of Crimea: Animals = Red book of the Republic of Crimea: Animals / resp. ed. S.P. Ivanov, A.V. Fateryga. - Simferopol: IT "ARIAL", 2015. - 440 p. - 197 copies. - ISBN 978-5-906813-88-6 .
- ↑ carabidae.org - Cephalota (Taenidia) besseri (Dejean, 1826)