Hygrobia hermanni

Hygrobia hermanni, commonly known as the screech beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Hygrobiidae. It is found in Southern and Western Europe and North Africa[2][3] in stagnant and muddy waters. It able to make a strident grating noise, hence the name screech beetle. The sound is produced when the sharp edge of the 7th abdominal tergite is rubbed against a subapical median file on the elytral undersurface.

Hygrobia hermanni
Hygrobia hermanni Size: 8,5-11 mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hygrobiidae
Genus: Hygrobia
Species:
H. hermanni
Binomial name
Hygrobia hermanni
(Fabricius, 1775) [1]

References
  1. Fabricius, J.C. 1775: Systema Entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species... Flensburgh and Leipzig, Library Kortii.
  2. Joy, N 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
  3. Fauna Europaea
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