Oiceoptoma thoracicum ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah & Şahin, Ülfet, 2018, The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record, Zootaxa 4441 (3), pp. 555-591 : 577

Oiceoptoma thoracicum ( Linnaeus, 1758)

( Figs 21 , 40 )

Distribution in Turkey. Trabzon, Rize ( Háva et al. 1998).

Remarks. Widely distributed Transpalaearctic species, known from Europe to Japan (Růžička 2015). In central Europe, abundant in forested habitats (e.g., Růžička 1994). In Turkey, recorded from two provinces (Trabzon, Rize) of the Black Sea Region, located in the northeast of Turkey, dominated by humid climatic characteristics with high precipitation ( Fig. 40 ). No recently collected specimens from Turkey were available.

Figures

FIGURES 21–24. Habitus in dorsal view of (21) Oiceoptoma thoracicum, (22) Nicrophorus sepultor, (23) N. vespillo and (24) N. vespilloides (scales: 5 mm).

FIGURES 39–40. Distribution of (39) Necrodes littoralis and (40) Oiceoptoma thoracicum in Turkey.