The Influence of Landscape Heterogeneity - Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Fthiotida, Central Greece Author Chapman, Anna Nicola text Biodiversity Data Journal 2014 2 1082 1082 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1082 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1082 1314-2828--1082 Cylindera germanica (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution Europe and large parts of Asia ( Arndt et al. 2011 ). Notes Found on loamy soil, often on flood plains ( Arndt et al. 2011 ). It is a spring breeder, mesophilous, zoophagous and prefers to live in grassland and agricultural areas ( Varvara and Apostol 2008 ). In this study, it was found in the cotton field in the homogeneous area (n = 1), the maize field in the heterogeneous area (n = 5) and the maize field in the homogeneous area (n = 93).