. Economic entomology . Scirus insectorum. Copied from Hermann'; figure. Scirus insectorum (Leptus Phalangii, Curtis}. Copied from his fij^ure. This insect is 'described by Curtis, in his " Farm Insects," as one of the correctives of the wire-worm beetle. He found it on Elater ruficaudis, and it attaches itself to various other insects. Hermann says he found it on Elater, Tipula, and spiders. This habit has led to its being confounded with the larva of Trom- bidium holosericeum, which attaches itself, as already said, to the harvest spiders (Phalangium opilio). De Geer took it for th
. Economic entomology . Scirus insectorum. Copied from Hermann'; figure. Scirus insectorum (Leptus Phalangii, Curtis}. Copied from his fij^ure. This insect is 'described by Curtis, in his " Farm Insects," as one of the correctives of the wire-worm beetle. He found it on Elater ruficaudis, and it attaches itself to various other insects. Hermann says he found it on Elater, Tipula, and spiders. This habit has led to its being confounded with the larva of Trom- bidium holosericeum, which attaches itself, as already said, to the harvest spiders (Phalangium opilio). De Geer took it for the Acarus phalangii, and Curtis followed him, but seeing that it was only six-footed, rightly put it in the old genus, Leptus, proposed for the six-footed Acari, before it was known that they were only the young of other species. The true genus to which this belongs, however, is easily gathered from the snouted mouth and extended palpi: and Curtis's figure, which we give here, is un- mistakably only an individual of the Scirus insectorum figured by Hermann, not so well filled up as his specimen. It occurs both in this country and on the Continent.
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