Ophonus (Hesperophonus) azureus (Fabricius, 1775)
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Ophonus (Hesperophonus) azureus (Fabricius, 1775)
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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.
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