Atheta gagatina (Baudi di Selve, 1848)

Glotov, Sergii V. & Drogvalenko, Oleksandr M., 2022, On The Fauna Of Mycetobiontic Rove Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Of North-Eastern Ukraine, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 22 (2), pp. 135-155 : 143

Atheta gagatina (Baudi di Selve, 1848)

Material. Kharkiv region: environs of Haidary , highland oak forest, on carpophores of Russula decolorans , 6.VII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, dry ravine forest, on rotten carpophores Russula delica , 8.VIII.1992, 2 spec. ; ditto, on carpophores of Fomes fomentarius , 16.VIII.1992, 2 spec. ; ditto, highland oak forest, on rotten carpophores of Russula rosea , 16.VIII.1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, on rotten carpophores of Fistulina hepatica , 18.VIII. 1992, 1 spec. ; ditto, on old carpophores of Russula rosea , 3.IX.1992, 1 spec. ; environs of Chuhuiv , forest belt, on old carpophores of Lactarius insulsus , 15.VIII.1992, 1 spec. (Supplement, Tab. 1 ).

Bionomics. Active predator that lives in natural and artificial forests, on open steppe areas and meadows with different humidity level, rarely occurs in forest cover, plant remains, in mosses, in cattle manure. As facultative mycetobiont, it often occurs in rotten and dry carpophores of fungi.

Distribution. North Africa, Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Eastern Siberia, Central Asia ( Schülke & Smetana 2015).