Colydium elongatum (Fabricius, 1787)

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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scientific name

Colydium elongatum (Fabricius, 1787)
status

 

Colydium elongatum (Fabricius, 1787)

Bostrichus elongatum Fabricius, 1787 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127031; scientificName: Colydiumelongatum; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Colydium; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN21 ; verbatimElevation: 66 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 506342E 5005026N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.198691; decimalLongitude: 9.080746; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127031; scientificName: Colydiumelongatum; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Colydium; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN5 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 502886E 5008393N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.229029; decimalLongitude: 9.036770; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 5; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127031; scientificName: Colydiumelongatum; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Colydium; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; 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: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 13; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127031; scientificName: Colydiumelongatum; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Colydium; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1787; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V2 ; verbatimElevation: 65 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519868E 4999488N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148589; decimalLongitude: 9.252737; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Claudio Canepari; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps

Distribution

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia East, Russia North, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Near East ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species is rare. The larva develops under the bark and in the rotting wood of various dead broadleaves and conifer trees. It is a voracious predator of the larvae and pupae of other insects, especially Platypus sp. and Xyloterus sp. ( Alexander 2002, Hůrka 2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Zopheridae

Genus

Colydium