Tetrix subulata Linnaeus, 1758

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Tetrix subulata Linnaeus, 1758

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for European assessment ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).

Distribution

Widely distributed species in Eurasia and North America ( Fontana et al. 2002). In Italy, it is recorded in many localities in the mainland, while with single records in Sicily and Sardinia ( Iorio et al. 2019, Massa et al. 2012).

Notes

It is a meso-hygrophilous or hygrophilous species and lives from the coast up to 1700 m a.s.l. More frequent in lowland areas, submontane up to 1000 m a.s.l. It often forms abundant populations, located in fresh and humid habitats. It is an early species that overwinters as a nymph or adult insect ( Fontana et al. 2002).