Gnathoncus rotundatus (Kugelann, 1792)

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

Gnathoncus rotundatus (Kugelann, 1792)

Saprinus deletus J.E. LeConte, 1844 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Saprinus ignobilis Wollaston, 1864 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Hister nanus Scriba, 1790 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Hister piceus Marsham, 1802 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Gnathoncus punctulatus Thomson, 1862 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Hister quadristriatus Thunberg, 1794 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tribalus quadristriatus Wollaston, 1869 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Saprinus wollastoni Marseul, 1864 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Hister conjugatus Illiger, 1807 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Hister punctatus Thunberg, 1794 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:119823; scientificName: Gnathoncusrotundatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Gnathoncus; scientificNameAuthorship: Kugelann 1792; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN1 ; verbatimElevation: 68 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 503258E 5007870N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.224312; decimalLongitude: 9.041499; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:119823; scientificName: Gnathoncusrotundatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Gnathoncus; scientificNameAuthorship: Kugelann 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyclades Is., Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Dodecanese Is., Estonia, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova Republic of, North Aegean Is., Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives in all kinds of decaying organic matter, especially bat guano and bird nests. It is found in the nests of Coloeus monedula spemologus, Sturnus vulgaris , and Strix aluco ( Vienna 1980).