Oligota pumilio Kiesenwetter, 1858

Ostrovsky, A. M. & Solodovnikov, I. A., 2021, Rove beetles of Belarus: the genus Oligota Mannerheim, 1830 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Far Eastern Entomologist 436, pp. 35-40 : 37

Oligota pumilio Kiesenwetter, 1858 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Vitebsk Region: Lepel district , Berezinskiy Biosphere

Reserve, vill. Postrezhie, in the nest of Microtus arvalis Pall. , 14.VII 1982, 2 ex. (Chiki-

levskaya); Chashniki district , city of Chashniki, 54.850606° N, 29.169058° E, h= 137 m, in cellar, 4–18.V 2019, 7 ex. (1♂, 1♀ genital preparations) (Shvarackaya); Liozno district, 3 km

W of the vill. Velikoe Selo, 55.101444° N, 30.563081° E, h= 244 m, in the nest of Formica rufa L., 28.IX 2019, 1♀ (genital preparation) (Solodovnikov); Vitebsk, Bilevo-3, 55.165924°

N, 30.289308° E, h= 196 m, 15–25.VI 2020, 2♂, 5♀ (all genital preparations)

(Solodovnikov); 5 km SE of the Vitebsk, the vicinity of vill. Oktyabrskaya , 55.128264° N ,

30.242668° E, h= 140 m, 17.X 2020, 1♀ (Solodovnikov & Kulikova).

DISTRIBUTION. Belarus (Pisanenko & Monsevičius, 1991), Europe from France to eastern Turkey and the Crimea, in the north to Finland, in the south to Greece and southern

Italy. The species is recorded by Schülke & Smetana (2015) from North Africa, the Nearctic and the Neotropical regions. Cosmopolitan species.

NOTES. This species occurs in all habitats from the plain to the subalpine zone. Oligota pumilio was found in hollow trees, in leaves of various tree species, leftover wild fodder, in hay in cattle sheds, on moldy substrate, in mushrooms and once in a mole's nest. It also occurs in ant nests. Imago is overwinter.