Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864)

Ruzzier, Enrico, Morin, Lucio, Zugno, Matteo, Tapparo, Andrea, Bani, Luciano & Di Giulio, Andrea, 2023, New records of non-native Coleoptera in Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 111487-111487 : 111487

Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: C12A2CD3-F6F7-5357-B897-91B6AEC1B840; Taxon: scientificName: Caplothorax lugubris ( Murray , 1864); family: Nitidulidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Veneto; locality: Cassanego ( Borso del Grappa ) ; decimalLatitude: 45.827633; decimalLongitude: 11.811687; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2021-03-04 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 34E90A5F-BF19-5172-948A-D29A0F7D461D; Taxon: scientificName: Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864); family: Nitidulidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Veneto; locality: Pederobba ; decimalLatitude: 45.884568; decimalLongitude: 11.944527; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event : eventTime: 2021-04- 17 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4; occurrenceID: 7710809D-DDF0-548A-A92C-E920A3CE75AA; Taxon: scientificName: Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864); family: Nitidulidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Friuli Venezia Giulia ; locality: Ronchi dei Legionari ; decimalLatitude: 45.824606; decimalLongitude: 13.495001; geodeticDatum: WGS8; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2019-08- 20 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 7D090E7D-F9DB-5881-B1C9-AF8B35A35A99; Taxon: scientificName: Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864); family: Nitidulidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Friuli Venezia Giulia ; locality: Monte Calvario ; decimalLatitude: 45.952522; decimalLongitude: 13.583972; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2019-04-03 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 7; occurrenceID: 4F4A32F2-0773-5411-B774-BA7361D59E98; Taxon: scientificName: Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864); family: Nitidulidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Friuli Venezia Giulia ; locality: Monte Calvario ; decimalLatitude: 45.952522; decimalLongitude: 13.583972; geodeticDatum: WGS8; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2019-05-09 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 51B94B3C-5C87-5CF1-B4DF-7515EB58E368; Taxon: scientificName: Caplothorax lugubris (Murray, 1864); family: Nitidulidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Veneto; locality: Creazzo ; decimalLatitude: 45.527977; decimalLongitude: 11.488399; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2019-11-09

Distribution

Species of Nearctic and Neotropical distribution ( Parsons 1943), established in Italy since 2013 ( Marini et al. 2013, Jelínek et al. 2016).

Notes

Species of phytosanitary relevance (e.g. Harrison (1962), Dowd (2000), Marini et al. (2013), Jelínek et al. (2016)) now widely distributed in the Po plain (Northern Italy), were is frequently injurious on Zea mays L. and Fragaria sp. (authors' personal observations).