Dicheirotrichus gustavi
Dicheirotrichus gustavi is a ground beetle which emerges from cracks or holes to feed on tidal salt marshes after dusk. Despite living in a coastal environment, it has no cycle of behaviour linked to the tides, simply scurrying for dry land when caught by the approaching sea.[1] It will eat the larvae of another intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, if they are left unprotected by the adult.[2]
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References
- Foster, W A (1983). "Activity rhythms and the tide in a saltmarsh beetle Dicheirotrichus gustavi" (PDF). Oecologia. 60: 111–113. doi:10.1007/bf00379328. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-01.
- Wyatt, T D; Foster, W A (1989). "Parental Care in the Subsocial Intertidal Beetle, Bledius spectabilis, in Relation to Parasitism by the Ichneumonid Wasp, Barycnemis blediator". Behaviour. 110 (1–4): 76–92. doi:10.1163/156853989x00394.
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