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Anthocomus rufus · pūsliavabalis

  • Anthocomus coccineus
  • red malachite beetle
  • Rote Zipfelkäfer, Herbst-Zipfelkäfer, Roter Warzenkäfer
  • heloviherikäs
  • przerwiec czerwony

ukbeetles.co.uk/anthocomus-rufus This species has a limited and patchy European distribution. They mate on foliage or stems and this may occur quite quickly and spontaneously or they may perform a courtship ritual where they approach and walk around each other; the male may stimulate the female with his antennae and the pair will rotate so that the male is facing away from the female while she nibbles at tufts of setae on his elytral apex and this may go on for ten minutes before they mate. They are predatory and hunt small insects etc. among the foliage but also spend much time consuming pollen, typically on reed flowers (Phragmites communis) but also on rushes (Juncus) and various sedges. Soon after mating females lay eggs in empty seed cases or among reed flowers where the larvae will develop feeding on dead insects etc. Larvae overwinter in reed stems and pupate within the stems from late spring.

4-5mm, gyvena drėgnose vietose, randamas VII-IX.