Lordithon lunulatus (Linnaeus, 1760)

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 : 141

Lordithon lunulatus (Linnaeus, 1760)

Material. Kharkiv region: environs of Haidary , moist ravine forest, on carpophores of Laetiporus sulphureus , 2. VI.1992, 7 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on old carpophores of Mycena sp. , 2. VI.1992, 5 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on old carpophores of Pluteus cervinus , 9. VI.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on old carpophores of Gymnopus dryophilus , 17. VI.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, highland oak forest, on rotten carpophores of Russula delica , 8.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, dry ravine forest, on carpophores of Russula decolorans , 8.VIII.1992, 2 spec. ; ditto, on old carpophores of Artomyces pyxidatus , 8.VIII. 1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, highland oak forest, on old carpophores of Suillellus luridus , 9.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on carpophores of Kuehneromyces mutabilis , 16.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on carpophores of Ganoderma applanatum , 16.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, highland oak forest, on old carpophores of Russula rosea , 17.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, on old carpophores of Russula cyanoxantha , 17.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, on old carpophores of Russula delica , 22.VIII.1992, 9 spec. ; ditto, on carpophores of Oxyporus corticola , 22.VIII. 1992, 2 spec. ; ditto, on carpophores of Amanita phalloides , 22.VIII.1992, 2 spec. ; ditto, moist ravine forest, on carpophores of Coprinus comatus , 4.IX.1992, 2 spec. ; environs of Zadonetske , artificial pine forest, on carpophores of Russula virescens , 28.VII.1992, 1 spec. (Supplement, Tab. 1 ).

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

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