Hypophloeus unicolor (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

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

Hypophloeus unicolor (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 3; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:282096; scientificName: Hypophloeusunicolor; order: Coleoptera; family: Tenebrionidae; genus: Hypophloeus; scientificNameAuthorship: Piller & Mitterpacher 1783; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V1 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519272E 4999526N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148947; decimalLongitude: 9.245157; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 26; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:282096; scientificName: Hypophloeusunicolor; order: Coleoptera; family: Tenebrionidae; genus: Hypophloeus; scientificNameAuthorship: Piller & Mitterpacher 1783; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V2 ; verbatimElevation: 65 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519868E 4999488N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148589; decimalLongitude: 9.252737; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Sweden, Yugoslavia ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species develops in freshly the dead wood of birch, beech, and oak trees. It is probably a predator of the larvae of the beetle Hylecoetus and other wood borers ( Alexander 2002).