Bitoma crenata (Fabricius, 1775)

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

Bitoma crenata (Fabricius, 1775)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 11; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127036; scientificName: Bitomacrenata; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Bitoma; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1775; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN1 ; verbatimElevation: 68 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 503258E 5007870N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.224312; decimalLongitude: 9.041499; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 20; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127036; scientificName: Bitomacrenata; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Bitoma; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1775; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN21 ; verbatimElevation: 66 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 506342E 5005026N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.198691; decimalLongitude: 9.080746; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127036; scientificName: Bitomacrenata; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Bitoma; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1775; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN5 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 502886E 5008393N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.229029; decimalLongitude: 9.036770; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Austria, Azores, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Danish mainland, European Turkey, Faroe Is., Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Moldova Republic of, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Near East ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives in ancient wood pastures. It lives under the bark of beech and oak tree deadwood in the early stages of decay and still sappy. It can also be found on birch, horse chestnut, and sycamore trees. The larva and adults are gregarious ( Alexander 2002, Hůrka 2005).