Rhopalocerus rondanii (Villa & Villa, 1833)

Stefanelli, Silvia, Della Rocca, Francesca & Bogliani, Giuseppe, 2014, Saproxylic beetles of the Po plain woodlands, Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1106-1106 : 1106

Rhopalocerus rondanii (Villa & Villa, 1833)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 36; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127013; scientificName: Rhopalocerusrondanii; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Rhopalocerus; scientificNameAuthorship: Villa & Villa 1833; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN21 ; verbatimElevation: 66 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 506342E 5005026N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.198691; decimalLongitude: 9.080746; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127013; scientificName: Rhopalocerusrondanii; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Rhopalocerus; scientificNameAuthorship: Villa & Villa 1833; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN5 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 502886E 5008393N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.229029; decimalLongitude: 9.036770; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 3; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127013; scientificName: Rhopalocerusrondanii; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Rhopalocerus; scientificNameAuthorship: Villa & Villa 1833; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN10 ; verbatimElevation: 76 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 504479E 5006332N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.210461; decimalLongitude: 9.057038; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives in isolated and relict forests. The larva develops under the bark of deadwood and in the tree humus often associated with ants of the genus Lasius . In one case, the species was found with another beetle Osmoderma eremita ( Bussler et al. 2005).