Calambus bipustulatus (Linneaus, 1767)

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1106

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scientific name

Calambus bipustulatus (Linneaus, 1767)
status

 

Calambus bipustulatus (Linneaus, 1767)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:235800; scientificName: Calambusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Elateridae; genus: Calambus; nomenclaturalCode: Linnaeus 1767; 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 Platia; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern ( European Environment Agency 2013).

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia Northwest, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palaearctic ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species is found in the winter under the bark of old oak trees such as lindens, elms, poplars, and mulberry trees. The larva is a predator living in the soft rotten wood of stumps and trunks on the same plant as the adult, especially oaks ( Platia 1994, Alexander 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Elateridae

Genus

Calambus