Atheta graminicola (Gravenhorst, 1806)

Glotov, S., Hushtan, K., Hushtan, H., Koval, N. & Diedus, V., 2022, The Genus Atheta (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) In The Ukrainian Carpathians, Zoodiversity 56 (1), pp. 91-110 : 98

Atheta graminicola (Gravenhorst, 1806) ( fig. 1 , c)

Material. 10 ex. LWI: Ivano-Frankove [Janów], date not specified, 4 ex. ; Lviv [L], [132], date not specified, 1 ex. ; same locality but, 6.9. [year not specified], 1 ex. ; same locality but, Sykhiv [Sichów], date not specified, 1 ex. ; Zubra [Zubra], 7.5. [year not specified], 1 ex. ( SMNH). ZAK: Mala Uholka , 13.08.1990, 2 ex., leg. V. Chumak ( SIZK) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Palaearctic (excluding North Africa) ( Schülke & Smetana, 2015). Without specifying the territory is given in the catalogs of Galicia and Poland ( Łomnicki, 1884, 1913); first record for Ukrainian Carpathians.

Bionomics. The species occurs in lowlands and foothills in deciduous and mixed forests, in swamps, along rivers and reservoirs, where they live in cover and coastal sediments, in mosses, in sedge and cereal mounds, in dry grass; in warm evenings, they often gather in mowing around vegetation. At dusk, they fly to light ( Semenov, 2007; Glotov, 2021).

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus: a — Atheta coriaria (Kraatz, 1856); b — A. divisa (Märkel, 1844); c — A. graminicola (Gravenhorst, 1806); d — A. oblita (Erichson, 1839); e — A. ravilla (Erichson, 1839); f — A. macrocera (Thomson, 1856); g — A. occulta (Erichson, 1837); h — A. longicornis (Gravenhorst, 1802); i — A. melanaria (Mannerheim, 1830); j — A. zosterae (Thomson, 1856); k — A. atramentaria (Gyllenhal, 1810); l — A. marcida (Erichson, 1837); m — A. subtilis (Scriba, 1866); n — A. amicula (Stephens, 1832); o — A. laticollis Stephens, 1832; p — A. liturata (Stephens, 1832); q — A. nigritula (Gravenhorst, 1802).