Mycetophagus (Mycetophagus) quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1761)

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

Mycetophagus (Mycetophagus) quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1761)

Tritoma bipustulatus Schilsky, 1888 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Silphoides boleti Herbst, 1783 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus feliciae Ragusa, 1891 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Silpha quadrimaculatus Schaller, 1783 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tritoma ruficollis Schilsky, 1889 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus winteri Reitter, 1911 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tritoma antemacularis Dalla Torre, 1879 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tritoma impustulatus Schilsky, 1888 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 22; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124200; scientificName: Mycetophagusquadripustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1761; 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: 27; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124200; scientificName: Mycetophagusquadripustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1761; 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: 6; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124200; scientificName: Mycetophagusquadripustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1761; 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 6; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124200; scientificName: Mycetophagusquadripustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1761; 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: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124200; scientificName: Mycetophagusquadripustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1761; 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: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern ( European Environment Agency 2013).

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Channel Is., Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, 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, East Palaearctic, Near East, North Africa ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

This very rare species lives in old decaying broadleaves timbers with mildewed cavities. Sometimes it is found in stored products where fungal decay occurred ( Alexander 2002).