Dicheirotrichus gustavi

Dicheirotrichus luridipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Dicheirotrichus
Species: D. gustavi
Binomial name
Dicheirotrichus gustavi
Crotch, 1871

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

  1. Foster, W A (1983). "Activity rhythms and the tide in a saltmarsh beetle Dicheirotrichus gustavi" (PDF). Oecologia 60: 111–113. doi:10.1007/bf00379328.
  2. 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.
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