Description: L: ~2 mm Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfüßer) Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816 Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten) Subclass: Pterygota (Fluginsekten) Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923 Order: Coleoptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (beetles, Käfer) Suborder: Polyphaga EMERY, 1886 Infraorder: Cucujiformia LATREILLE, 1802 Superfamily:Cucujoidea LATREILLE, 1802 Family: Kateretidae ERICHSON KIRBY, 1837 (short-winged flower beetles, Riedgras-Glanzkäfer) (= Brachypteridae) Genus: Brachypterus KUGELANN, 1794 [suggested by "Bárbol", 2012, based on this photo] Brachypterus urticae FABRICIUS, 1792 more info:
www.thewcg.org.uk/kateretidae/0483G.htm or:
www.golddistel.de/kaefer/kateretidae/index.htm Bestimmungs-Tabelle:
www.coleo-net.de/coleo/texte/kateretidae.htm Germany, N-Hessen, Kassel: Dönche, 190m asl., 05.07.2011 ________________________________________________________ IMG_2579 100mm (canon 2.8), 1/160s, f/. Date: 5 July 2011, 02:46. Source:
copula of short-winged flower beetles on a nettle - Central Germany. Author:
gbohne from Berlin, Germany.