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Cantharis obscura · vikrusis minkštavabalis

  • black soldier beetle
  • Dunkle Fliegenkäfer, Eichenweichkäfer
  • vikrusis minkštavabalis
  • tumšais mīkstspārnis
  • omomiłek czarny
  • mörk flugbagge

This beetle species occurs in Europe and western Asia, even north of the Arctic Circle.

The beetles reach a body length of 9 to 13 mm. They have a black body coloration, only the sides of the pronotum, the maxillary palps, the cheeks and the underside of the first and second antennal segments are colored yellow to yellow-orange. The entire upper surface of the body covered with fine, light hairs. The pronotum is somewhat broader than it is long and is clearly rounded at the sides. The second and third antennal segments of the males are not thickened.