Bolitochara pulchra (Gravenhorst, 1806)

Glotov, Sergii V. & Drogvalenko, Oleksandr M., 2022, On The Fauna Of Mycetobiontic Rove Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Of North-Eastern Ukraine, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 22 (2), pp. 135-155 : 145-146

Bolitochara pulchra (Gravenhorst, 1806)

Material. Kharkiv region: environs of Haidary , moist ravine forest, at the trunk of a fallen tree, on young carpophores of Laetiporus sulphureus , 29.V.1992, 2 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on fallen trees of ash ( Fraxinus ) and ulm ( Ulmus ) on old carpophores of Fomes fomentarius , 29. V. 1992, 1 spec.; ditto, moist ravine forest, on old carpophores of Fistulina hepatica , 29. V.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, moist ravine forest, on fallen trees, on young carpophores of Ganoderma applanatum , 2. VI.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, highland oak forest, on fallen trees, on old carpophores of Daedalea quercina , 8. VI.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, moist ravine forest, on carpophores of Stereum hirsutum , 9. VI.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, on mature carpophores of Trametes versicolor , 9. VI.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, on old carpophores of Pluteus cervinus , 9. VI.1992, 4 spec.; ditto, on carpophores of Inocybe sp. , 11. VI.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, on old and rotten carpophores of Laetiporus sulphureus , 11. VI.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, on old carpophores of Tricholoma populinum , 13. VI.1992, 5 spec.; ditto, highland oak forest, on fallen trees, on old carpophores of Artomyces pyxidatus , 26. VI.1992, 2 spec.; ditto, on fallen trees, on carpophores of Neolentinus schaefferi , 26. VI.1992, 4 spec.; ditto, on fallen trees, on carpophores of Daedalea quercina , 6.VII.1992, 2 spec.; ditto, dry ravine forest, on old carpophores of Ganoderma applanatum , 16.VII.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, highland oak forest, on carpophores of Russula cyanoxantha , 01.VIII.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, dry ravine forest, on carpophores of Neolentinus schaefferi , 8.VIII. 1992, 1 spec.; ditto, moist ravine forest, on old carpophores of Hypholoma fasciculare , 10.VIII. 1992, 2 spec.; ditto, on carpophores of Fomes fomentarius , 16.VIII.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, highland oak forest, on carpophores of Phellinus igniarius , 22.VIII.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, on carpophores of Amanita phalloides , 22.VIII.1992, 1 spec.; ditto, floodplain forest, on carpophores of Trametes gibbosa , 23.VIII.1992, 1 spec.; environs of Chuhuiv, forest belt, on old carpophores of Lactarius insulsus , 10.VIII.1992, 1 spec. (Supplement, Tab. 1 ).

Bionomics. Active predator and obligate mycetobiont, it occurs in young, old and rotten carpophores of fungi.

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus,Siberia ( Schülke & Smetana 2015).