Biology:Dicheirotrichus gustavi
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Short description: Species of beetle
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Species: | D. gustavi
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Dicheirotrichus gustavi Crotch, 1871
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Dicheirotrichus gustavi is a ground beetle which emerges from cracks or holes to feed on tidal salt marshes after dusk. Despite living in a coastal environment, it has no cycle of behaviour linked to the tides, simply scurrying for dry land when caught by the approaching sea.[1] It will eat the larvae of another intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, if they are left unprotected by the adult.[2]
References
- ↑ Foster, W A (1983). "Activity rhythms and the tide in a saltmarsh beetle Dicheirotrichus gustavi". Oecologia 60: 111–113. doi:10.1007/bf00379328. http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/foster/PDFs/Foster_1983_Oecologia.pdf.
- ↑ Wyatt, T D; Foster, W A (1989). "Parental Care in the Subsocial Intertidal Beetle, Bledius spectabilis, in Relation to Parasitism by the Ichneumonid Wasp, Barycnemis blediator". Behaviour 110 (1–4): 76–92. doi:10.1163/156853989x00394.
Wikidata ☰ Q5272453 entry
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