Rhizophagus (Rhizophagus) bipustulatus (Fabricius, 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

Rhizophagus (Rhizophagus) bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1792)

Rhizophagus gyllenhalii C.G.Thomson, 1885 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Rhizophagus magniceps Reitter, 1897 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Rhizophagus bipunctatus Herbst, 1793 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Rhizophagus longicollis Gyllenhal, 1827 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 33; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:190874; scientificName: Rhizophagusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Monotomidae; genus: Rhizophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 98; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:190874; scientificName: Rhizophagusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Monotomidae; genus: Rhizophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 50; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:190874; scientificName: Rhizophagusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Monotomidae; genus: Rhizophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1792; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 315; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:190874; scientificName: Rhizophagusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Monotomidae; genus: Rhizophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1792; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 53; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:190874; scientificName: Rhizophagusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Monotomidae; genus: Rhizophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1792; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 48; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:190874; scientificName: Rhizophagusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Monotomidae; genus: Rhizophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1792; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Canary Is., Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, San Marino, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Near East, North Africa ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species usually lives under bark on broadleaves trees, especially if attacked by fungi. The larva feeds on the mycelia and occasionally hunts bark beetles as most other species of the genus ( Alexander 2002, Hůrka 2005).