Feeding behavior on Spirogyra algae by a Haliplus kamiyai larva

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Shot Date: 2020/02/04
Shot Location: University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

species
Haliplus kamiyai

Key Words
Crawling water beetle
Feeding behavior
Haliplidae
Spirogyra algae


Reiya Watanabe
2020/02/26 submitted


Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Coleoptera >Haliplidae >Haliplus >

Haliplus kamiyai (Coleoptera, Haliplidae) is a small water beetle and listed on the Red List of Japan as ˇČEndangered". In the laboratory rearing, I observed feeding behavior of on Spirogyra algae by a Haliplus kamiyai larva. The larva grasped Spirogyra algae by fore legs with thumb-like tibial lobes and ate it with falcate mandibles.

(Data No.momo200223hk01b)

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