Ophonus (Hesperophonus) azureus (Fabricius, 1775)

Chapman, Anna Nicola, 2014, The Influence of Landscape Heterogeneity - Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Fthiotida, Central Greece, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1082-1082 : 1082

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1082

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scientific name

Ophonus (Hesperophonus) azureus (Fabricius, 1775)
status

 

Ophonus (Hesperophonus) azureus (Fabricius, 1775)

Distribution

Northwestern Africa, Northern, Central and Southern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Northwestern China ( Arndt et al. 2011).

Notes

Consumes the seeds of common agricultural weed species such as Capsella bursa-pastoris , Taraxacum officinale and Cirsium arvense ( Petit et al. 2011). In this study, it was rare (n = 1) and was only found in the olive grove in the heterogeneous area.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Ophonus