Dorcus parallelipipedus (Linneaus, 1785)

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

Dorcus parallelipipedus (Linneaus, 1785)

Dorcus truquiii Mulsant, 1855 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 49; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:123292; scientificName: Dorcusparallelipipedus; order: Coleoptera; family: Lucanidae; genus: Dorcus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1785; 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: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 11; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:123292; scientificName: Dorcusparallelipipedus; order: Coleoptera; family: Lucanidae; genus: Dorcus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1785; 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: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 7; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:123292; scientificName: Dorcusparallelipipedus; order: Coleoptera; family: Lucanidae; genus: Dorcus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1785; 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: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 38; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:123292; scientificName: Dorcusparallelipipedus; order: Coleoptera; family: Lucanidae; genus: Dorcus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1785; 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: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 77; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:123292; scientificName: Dorcusparallelipipedus; order: Coleoptera; family: Lucanidae; genus: Dorcus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1785; 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: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 60; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:123292; scientificName: Dorcusparallelipipedus; order: Coleoptera; family: Lucanidae; genus: Dorcus; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1785; 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: Giuseppe Carpaneto; dateIdentified: 2011

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern ( European Environment Agency 2013).

Distribution

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, European Turkey, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Near East, North Africa ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives from the mountains to the Mediterranean lowlands. The larva develops in the rotten wood of various broadleaves and is often attacked by fungi. The adult flies on summer evenings, and it is attracted to light ( Alexander 2002, Hůrka 2005)