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Agrypnus murinus · kanapėtasis spragšis

  • Adelocera murina
  • Mausgraue Schnellkäfer, Mausgrauer Sandschnellkäfer
  • hietaseppä
  • kanapėtasis spragšis
  • podrzut myszaty, podrzut szary
  • gråknäppare

This beetle is present in most of Europe, the eastern Palearctic realm, the Near East and the Nearctic realm. The whole body is grey-brown with greyish points and is covered with a thick pubescence, while legs and antennae are mainly reddish or dark-brown.

Eggs are deposited in the soil where the larvae will develop, feeding upon the roots of grasses and occasionally woody plants such as oak saplings. Larval development takes two years and pupation occurs in the soil in late summer, adults eclose in the autumn and overwinter in their pupal cells, emerging in the spring.

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