Placonotus testaceus (Fabricius, 1787)

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

Placonotus testaceus (Fabricius, 1787)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 21; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Placonotustestaceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Laemophloeidae; genus: Placonotus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 16; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Placonotustestaceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Laemophloeidae; genus: Placonotus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 205; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Placonotustestaceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Laemophloeidae; genus: Placonotus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; 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: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 10; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Placonotustestaceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Laemophloeidae; genus: Placonotus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN10 ; verbatimElevation: 76 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 504479E 5006332N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.210461; decimalLongitude: 9.057038; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 20; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Placonotustestaceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Laemophloeidae; genus: Placonotus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V1 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519272E 4999526N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148947; decimalLongitude: 9.245157; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 21; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Placonotustestaceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Laemophloeidae; genus: Placonotus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V2 ; verbatimElevation: 65 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519868E 4999488N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148589; decimalLongitude: 9.252737; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Britain I., Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Madeira, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Russia South, Sicily, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Ukraine, Yugoslavia ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives from the plains to the hills and rarely in the mountains; they are mainly found in forests but are also found in urban habitats. It lives under the bark of various trees such as beech, oak, chestnut, elm, lime, maple, and pine trees. Sometimes it is found in galleries of Scolytidae ( Scolytus sp., Pteleobius sp., Taphrorychus sp., Tomicus sp.). It is attracted to both fresh and fermented sap ( Ratti 1999).