Mordellistenula longipalpis Ermisch, 1965

Selnekovic, David & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2019, New distributional records for sixteen Mordellidae species from the Western Palearctic (Insecta, Coleoptera, Mordellidae), ZooKeys 894, pp. 151-170 : 151

Mordellistenula longipalpis Ermisch, 1965 Fig. 5A

Mordellistenula longipalpis Ermisch, 1965: 256-259 [type locality: Belgrader wald, Turkey].

New records.

MONTENEGRO • 8 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; Bar city env., Volujica hill; 42°04'16"N, 19°6'10"E; 20 June 2011; D. Selnekovič leg.; dry grassland along the seashore, on the flowers of Helichrysum ; D. Selnekovič det.; DSPC.

Distribution.

Armenia ( Horák 2008), Azerbaijan ( Horák 2008), Bulgaria ( Ermisch 1969b), Greece ( Ermisch 1969b), Kazakhstan ( Odnosum 2003), North Macedonia ( Horák 2008), Montenegro (new country record), Turkey ( Ermisch 1965), Ukraine ( Odnosum 2010), former Yugoslavia ( Horák 2008, without specification).

Remarks.

This species is known from the Balkans and western Asia. It inhabits dry grasslands where adults feed on flowers of herbaceous plants. The first author observed adults on Mediterranean xeric grassland along the seashore on flowers of Helichrysum in Montenegro ( Fig. 2 ), and in ruderal vegetation along roadsides on flowers of Daucus carota in Bulgaria. The immature stages and their host plants remain unknown.

Figures

Figure 2. Mediterranean xeric grasslands with flowering Helichrysum on Volujica hill in Montenegro, 42 ° 04 ' 29.0 " N, 19 ° 06 ' 11.8 " E. Variimorda caprai (Franciscolo, 1951), Mordellistena olympica Ermisch, 1965 and Mordellistenula longipalpis Ermisch, 1965 recorded from this locality are new to Montenegro.

Figure 5. A Mordellistenula longipalpis Ermisch, 1965, male B Mordellochroa milleri (Emery, 1876), male.