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Necrophorus vespilloides
Burying Beetle
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0912 0549 (2012-09-11)Copyright © 2012 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Sep 3, 2012
latitude 46.34738 longitude 13.73958
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location
Dol pod Plazmi, west of Lepo Špičje ridge, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)order
Coleoptera
class Insecta
notes Slo.: (?) grobar - Habitat: A small opening in mixed, old predominantly Picea abies mountain forest, calcareous ground, almost flat terrain, quite humid place, half-shade, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 2-4 deg C, elevation 1.380 m (4.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Comment: Three beetles found around a fox (?) excrement. On some pictures one can see mites Poecilochirus necrophori, which are not parasites but live in symbiosis with the beetle. This is a very interesting beetle. Read references! - Ref.: (1) http://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enFSearch.cgi?Fam=Silphidae (2) http://www.natur-lexikon.com/Texte/MZ/001/00078-Totengraeber/MZ00078-Totengraeber.html (3) http://www.natur-in-nrw.de/HTML/Tiere/Insekten/Kaefer/Staphylinoidea/TK-3091.htmlcamera Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
contributor's ID # Bot_653/2012_IMG0995 photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Insect
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Burying Beetle (photographer)
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