Dicheirotrichus gustavii is a ground beetle which emerges from cracks or holes to feed on tidal salt marshes after dusk. Despite living in a coastal environment, it has no cycle of behaviour linked to the tides, simply scurrying for dry land when caught by the approaching sea.[1] It will eat the larvae of another intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, if they are left unprotected by the adult.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Harpalinae |
| Tribe: | Harpalini |
| Genus: | Dicheirotrichus |
| Species: | D. gustavii
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| Dicheirotrichus gustavii Crotch, 1871
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References
edit- ^ Foster, W A (1983). "Activity rhythms and the tide in a saltmarsh beetle Dicheirotrichus gustavi" (PDF). Oecologia. 60: 111–113. doi:10.1007/bf00379328. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-01.
- ^ Wyatt, T D; Foster, W A (1989). "Parental Care in the Subsocial Intertidal Beetle, Bledius spectabilis, in Relation to Parasitism by the Ichneumonid Wasp, Barycnemis blediator". Behaviour. 110 (1–4): 76–92. doi:10.1163/156853989x00394.
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