Anthribus nebulosus (Forster, 1770)

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

Anthribus nebulosus (Forster, 1770)

Brachytarsus nebulosus Kuster, 1859 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Bruchus varius Fabricius, 1787 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Bruchus clathratus Herbst, 1786 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Anthribus variegatus Geoffroy, 1785 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:186820; scientificName: Anthribusnebulosus; order: Coleoptera; family: Anthribidae; genus: Anthribus; scientificNameAuthorship: Forster 1770; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN5 ; verbatimElevation: 69 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 502886E 5008393N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.229029; decimalLongitude: 9.036770; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Paolo Cornacchia; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia North, Sardinia, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palaearctic, Near East (Asian Turkey, Caucasian Russian republics, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Sinai Peninsula (Egypt), Arabian peninsula, Iran, Iraq) ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives in conifer, broadleaves, mixed, and floodplain forests. The larva is a predator of Coccidae and develops mainly on pine and fir, while the adult is found on larch, willow, oak, and beech ( Hoebeke and Wheeler 1991, Holuša and Trýzna 2007).