Mordellistena (s. str.) koelleri Ermisch, 1956

Selnekovic, David & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2019, New distributional records for sixteen Mordellidae species from the Western Palearctic (Insecta, Coleoptera, Mordellidae), ZooKeys 894, pp. 151-170 : 151

Mordellistena (s. str.) koelleri Ermisch, 1956

Mordellistena (s. str.) koelleri Ermisch, 1956: 289 [type locality: Hale, Lettiner Höhen, Germany].

New records.

ITALY • 1 ♂; Magredi di Cordenons, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia; 46°01'50"N, 12°43'33"E; 02 June 2018; E. Ruzzier leg.; E. Ruzzier det.; ERPC • 1 ♂; Treviso, Veneto; 45°50'04"N, 11°44'47"E; 17 June 2018; E. Ruzzier leg.; E. Ruzzier det.; ERPC. MONTENEGRO • 2 ♂♂; Prokletije Mountains, Grebaje valley; 42°31'53"N, 19°47'36"E; 2 Aug. 2016; D. Selnekovič leg.; D. Selnekovič det.; DSPC.

Distribution.

Austria ( Ermisch 1963b), Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Ermisch 1963b), Bulgaria ( Ermisch 1969b), Czech Republic ( Ermisch 1963b), Denmark ( Ermisch 1969a), France ( Köstlin and Vogt 1971), Germany ( Ermisch 1956), Hungary ( Ermisch 1963b), Italy (new country record), North Macedonia ( Ermisch 1969b), Poland ( Borowiec 1996), Montenegro (new country record), Slovakia ( Horák 1979), Spain ( Horák 2008), Sweden ( Kangas and Rutanen 1984), Switzerland ( Köstlin and Vogt 1971), Ukraine ( Odnosum 1993, 2010), former Yugoslavia ( Horák 2008; without further information).

Remarks.

Mordellistena koelleri inhabits various grassland habitats from lowlands to highlands reaching up to 1700 m a.s.l. ( Köstlin and Vogt 1971) The adults feed on flowers of herbaceous plants. It was observed by the authors on the subpannonian steppes and calcareous grasslands in Slovakia on flowers of Tithymalus , on a pastured montane meadow in Montenegro on Daucus carota , and a sandy steppe in Italy on flowers of Daucus carota . The larvae and host plants remain unknown. Specimens examined for the present study were compared with the type series deposited in SNSD.