Mordellistena (s. str.) falsoparvula Ermisch, 1956

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

Mordellistena (s. str.) falsoparvula Ermisch, 1956

Mordellistena (s. str.) falsoparvula Ermisch, 1956: 281 [type locality: Mecklenburg, Germany].

New records.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA • 1 ♀; Bosnia; E. Bokor leg.; D. Selnekovič det.; HNHM • 2 ♀♀; Sarajevo; Apfelbeck leg.; D. Selnekovič det.; HNHM. MONTENEGRO • 1 ♂; Durdevica Tara Bridge env.; 43°08'49.4"N, 19°17'52.1"E, 3. June 2010; D. Selnekovič leg.; meadow; D. Selnekovič det.; DSPC.

Distribution.

Austria ( Ermisch 1956), Belarus ( Zemoglyadchuk 2007), Bosnia and Herzegovina (new country record), Bulgaria ( Ermisch 1969a), Czech Republic ( Ermisch 1956), Deutschland ( Ermisch 1956), Estonia ( Silfverberg 2004), France ( Ermisch 1977), Georgia ( Horák 2008), Hungary ( Ermisch 1969a; Kaszab 1979), Italy ( Ermisch 1969a; Ruzzier 2013), Kazakhstan ( Odnosum 2010), Montenegro (new country record), Netherlands ( Batten 1976a), Poland ( Ermisch 1956; Borowiec 1996), Portugal ( Horák 2008), Slovakia ( Majzlan and Vidlička 2016), Switzerland ( Borowiec 1996), Ukraine ( Odnosum 2006), former Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) ( Horák 2008).

Remarks.

This species inhabits xerothermophilous and mesophilous grasslands and ruderal vegetation where the adults feed on flowers of herbaceous plants, e.g., Chrysanthemum , Cirsium , Achillea ( Borowiec 1996). The larva was described by Odnosum (1983, 2010) and reported to develop in stems of Artemisia absinthium and A. vulgaris . The first author reared adults from stem of Apiaceae plant infested by larvae in southern Slovakia.