Silpha atrata

Le Petit silphe noir (Phosphuga atrata) est une espèce d'insectes coléoptères de la famille des silphidés. C'est la seule espèce du genre Phosphuga (Taxon monotypique). Il se nourrit d'escargots vivants, d'insectes et de vers de terre ainsi que de charognes.

Phosphuga is a Eurasian genus of flightless carrion beetle, whose sole member is the species Phosphuga atrata, commonly known as black snail beetle. Up to 15mm long, they have an oval shape as adults and are brownish in color when newly moulted, becoming black as their exoskeleton hardens. Black snail beetles resemble (and are presumably closely related to and sometimes even included in) the type genus Silpha of the carrion beetle subfamily Silphinae, and are thus placed in tribe Silphini.

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