Rugilus rufipes (Germar, 1836)

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 : 139

Rugilus rufipes (Germar, 1836)

Material. Kharkiv region: environs of Haidary , moist ravine forest, on old carpophores of Coprinus micaceus , 8. VI.1992, 1 spec. ; at the same place, moist ravine forest, on apothecia of Legaliana badia , 13. VI.1992, 1 spec.; at the same place, highland oak forest, on old and rotten carpophores of Kuehneromyces mutabilis , 23. VI. 1992, 3 spec.; at the same place, floodplain forest, on rotten carpophores Coprinopsis atramentaria , 2.VII.1992, 1 spec.; at the same place, highland oak forest, on rotten carpophores of Russula xerampelina , 9.VII.1992, 1 spec. (Supplement, Tab. 1 ).

Bionomics. Active predator, which lives in natural and anthropogenic biotopes, along banks of rivers and reservoirs, on open steppe areas and meadows with different humidity level, in forest cover and in mosses. As accidental mycetobiont, it occurs in mature carpophores of fungi.

Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Near East, Western Siberia ( Schülke & Smetana 2015).