Dictyon pumilio ( EPPELSHEIM 1884)

Assing, V., 2010, The second species of Dictyon FAUVEL from the Western Palaearctic region, with additional records of D. pumilio (EPPELSHEIM) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1), pp. 485-488 : 486

Dictyon pumilio ( EPPELSHEIM 1884) ( Map 1 )

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Greece: 2, Pieria Oros, W Ritini, 600 m, decaying beech trunk, 18.IV.2006, leg. Vít (cAss). Azerbaijan: 3, Lenkoran, Apo below Bilasar, 350 m, 8.-9.VI.1996, leg. Schawaller (SMNS, cAss).

C o m m e n t: The species is now known from four localities in Greece, two in Azerbaijan, and one in northwestern Iran. Unfortunately, no males have become available from the Caspian Sea region, so that the possibility that the material from Greece may turn out to represent a distinct species cannot be ruled out completely.

The two females from Greece were collected from a dead beech trunk inhabited by the ant Lasius fuliginosus (LATREILLE 1798).

Figures

Map 1: Distributions of Dictyon pumilio (EPPELSHEIM) (filled circles) and D. hlavaci nov.sp. (open circles) in the Western Palaearctic region.