Platysoma (Cylister) elongatum elongatum (Thunberg)

Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 197-280 : 209

4. Platysoma (Cylister) elongatum elongatum (Thunberg)

Platysoma oblongum F.: Bargagli 1871: 40; Bertolini 1872 –1878: 82, 1904: 48; Porta 1926: 368; Barajon 1966 Platysoma (Cylistosoma) oblongum Fabr. : Luigioni 1929: 365

Cylister oblongus (Fabricius) : Vienna 1980: 54

Cylister elongatus (Thunberg) : Yélamos & Lackner 2004

Literature data. “All of Italy ” ( Bertolini 1904; Porta 1926). “ Sardinia ” ( Bargagli 1871; Bertolini 1872 –1878; Luigioni 1929; Barajon 1966; Vienna 1980; Audisio et al. 1995; Yélamos & Lackner 2004).

Unpublished records. Nuoro prov. : Goceano, loc. b’Uccaido, 1040 m, 24. VI .2007, under bark of Pinus sp. , PC/GS, 4 ex (CPC).

Chorotype. 1.05 SIE (Sibero-European).

Italian distribution. Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marches, Campania ( Vomero & Nardi 2007), Calabria, Sicily ( Baviera 2006) and Sardinia.

Ecology. Mostly found under bark of recently felled conifers or conifers in the initial phases of an attack by xylophagous beetles, in hilly-mountainous habitats; feeds on larvae of Scolytinae ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ).

Notes. Having not found any Sardinian specimens in the many studied collections, Penati and Vienna (2002) had considered this species, previously only generically mentioned in the literature, as absent from Sardinia. The recently captured specimens listed above confirm the “old” literature records and demonstrate the presence of the taxon on the island.