Featured speciesText © K. Reißmann, T. Hörren, M. Stern, F. Bötzl and C. Benisch
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14.07.2023
Biphyllus lunatus (F., 1792)
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The 3 to 3.3 mm large false skin beetle Biphyllus lunatus (family Biphyllidae) is the only representative of the genus in Germany, which comprises a total of four species in Europe. It is distinguished through a bright, zig-zag-shaped mark on the elytra. The stenotopic, mycetobiont species occurs in North Africa, Southern and Central Europe, in the East to Southern Siberia. The occurrences in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic are quite scattered and only on the British Isles the species is somewhat more common. It lives and develops on the fungus King Alfred's Cake (Daldinia concentrica), which can be found on dead branches of various deciduous trees, mainly ash. The larvae feed on the mycelium and pupate in the ground. In Germany, recent records are only known from the North Rhine and the species is critically endangered (RL 1). (CB)
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