Endophloeus marcovichianus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

Stefanelli, Silvia, Della Rocca, Francesca & Bogliani, Giuseppe, 2014, Saproxylic beetles of the Po plain woodlands, Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1106-1106 : 1106

Endophloeus marcovichianus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

Silpha marcovichianus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127144; scientificName: Endophloeusmarcovichianus; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Endophloeus; scientificNameAuthorship: Piller & Mitterpacher 1783; 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: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, European Turkey, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Macedonia, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Near East, North Africa ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives mainly in the mountains and occasionally in the lowlands. The larva and adults are found under the loose bark of several broadleaves, especially beech trees ( Alexander 2002, Cianferoni et al. 2009).