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Common Red Soldier Beetle

Rhagonycha fulva

Classification

Class
Insecta

Rhagonycha fulva, the common red soldier beetle, also misleadingly known as the bloodsucker beetle, and popularly known in England as the hogweed bonking beetle is a species of soldier beetle (Cantharidae). Taxonomy Rhagonycha fulva was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 in Entomologia Carniolica as Cantharis fulva. Description Rhagonycha fulva measures 8–10 millimetres (0.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 33,151United Kingdom · 18,657Germany · 7,336France · 4,031Italy · 1,428Spain · 1,220Switzerland · 577Belgium · 364Luxembourg · 163