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Acilius sulcatus

Synonyms: Acilius scoticus; Acilus sulcatus; Dytiscus sulcatus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Acilius sulcatus is a species of water beetle in family Dytiscidae.It is fairly large (14.4 – 18.2 mm), with color variation shown throughout its range. Typically it is yellow and black.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central & Western Europe Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom Palearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    

Prey / Diet

Cloeon dipterum (Lake Olive Dun Mayfly)[1]
Tanytarsus pallidicornis[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)[1]
Ardea cinerea (Grey Heron)[1]
Ichthyosaura alpestris (Alpine Newt)[1]
Lissotriton helveticus (Palmate Newt)[1]
Notonecta glauca (Water boatman)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0