Oligota granaria Erichson, 1837

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 : 36

Oligota granaria Erichson, 1837

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Vitebsk Region: Vitebsk, Bilevo-3, 55.165924° N ,

30.289308° E, h= 196 m, 15–25.VI 2020, 1♀ (Solodovnikov); the same locality, 02–24.VIII

2020, 1♀ (Solodovnikov); Vitebsk, Bilevo-2, 55.165992° N, 30.264060° E, h= 189 m, 25. VI –

09.VII 2020, 1♀ (Solodovnikov); 4 km E of Vitebsk, the vicinity of vill. Tulovo, 55.198280°

N, 30.323528° E, h= 155 m, 22.IX 2020, 9♂, 4♀ (5♂, 3♀ genital preparations)

(Solodovnikov, Kulikova & Kuznetsov); Liozno district, 22 km E of the Vitebsk, the vicinity of vill. Novorot'ye, 55.106239° N, 30.582778° E, h= 247 m, 19.VI 2016, 4♂, 7♀ (1♂, 2♀ genital preparations) (Solodovnikov); 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). Minsk Region: NW of the Minsk, surroundings of the Drozdy reservoir,

Svisloch River floodplain, 53.947940° N, 27.494136° E , h= 197 m, 05.VI 2020, 1♂ (Kuznetsov). Gomel Region: SE of the Gomel, Korenevka forestry, 52.376667° N, 31.044444° E ,

h= 137 m, in the nest of Formica rufa L., 11.X 2020, 2 ♀ (Ostrovsky).

DISTRIBUTION. Belarus (Pisanenko & Monsevičius, 1991); Austria, Belgium, Great

Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italia, Poland,

Romania, Russia (European part), Slovakia, The Netherlands, Ukraine (Smetana, 2004;

Semenov, 2007; Kapp, 2019). West-Palaearctic species.

NOTES. Beetles live in compost, haystacks, under fallen leaves, dry grass, in the nests of mice and ants ( Formica spp. ). Imago observed from June to September.