Cantharis rufa

Cantharis rufa
	Cantharis rufa Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Cantharidae
Genus:	Cantharis
Species:	C. rufa
Binomial name
	Cantharis rufa; (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cantharis rufa is a species of soldier beetle and is coloured orange and black. This beetle is common in large parts of Europe and is 10mm to 15mm in length. It lives in bushes, edges of forests and meadows. They hunt for small insects. ^[2]^[3]

It is often mixed up with the beetle named Cantharis fusca.

References

↑ Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm
↑ Fauna Europaea
↑ Norman H. Joy, , 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles

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[1] Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm

[2] Fauna Europaea

[3] Norman H. Joy, , 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles

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