"Wavy brachycerus"

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Wavy brachycerus () is a beetle from the brachyceride family. A representative of a predominantly tropical desert and savannah African genus in the steppes of the southeastern European part of Russia.

Description
Body length 6 - 15 mm, males are much smaller than females. It's black. Body shape is very convex. The head tube is short and wide. The tendrils are short, thick. The front back is angularly widened on the sides. The wings are almost spherical. The front back with wide longitudinal rollers along the middle, extended in the center, and with shortened arc-shaped rollers on the side of them. The grooves between the rollers are completely covered with small light scales. The gaps of the overwings are strongly convex, winding, on the sides of the overwings are broken into separate round bumps.
The legs are thick and short, seated with thick protruding bristles. Hips without a tooth.
The lower legs at the top are angularly extended outwards in the form of a more or less large blade. The legs are narrow, the third segment is not wider than the second, the sole of the first or third segments with narrow bundles of long bristles on the top. The claws are free.

areal
Sicily, southern Italy, Balkans, Cyprus, Turkey, southern Ukraine. In Crimea, it is found in the mountains, reaching the level of yail. In Russia - the north-east of the Azov region and the south-west of the Rostov region, the Azov region and the western part of the Manych valley, the Taman Peninsula.

Biology.
It lives in the steppes and solar steppes. Beetles are more common in April-May, forage plants are unknown, perhaps they are representatives of the lily family.

Comments on protection
Listed in the Red Book of Russia (1 category - endangered species).

Notes

References
Brachycerus sinuatus Ol. (Brachyceridae) - atlas of beetles of Russia - photo by K.V. Makarov
Wavy brachycerus in the Red Book of the Krasnodar Territory

brachicerides
Europe's insects
Fauna of Crimea
Animals described in 1807