Nephus redtenbacheri

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]

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

Ecology

In central Europe this beetle lives in the grass layer and detritus, feeding on scale insects, aphids, and especially Psocoptera. It occurs in marshes, including peatbogs, on marshy shores, in meadows, at wet forest edges, in flood-plain forests, and 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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