Merohister ariasi (Marseul)

Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 197-280 : 220-221

16. Merohister ariasi (Marseul)

Literature data. Nuoro prov.: Urzulei, Gola di Gorroppu, 9.VI.1995, DB, 1 ex ( Penati 1999; Penati & Vienna 2002; CDB).

Chorotype. 2.04 SEU (S-European).

Italian distribution. Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Tuscany, Umbria, Marches, Latium, Apulia, Basilicata, Sicily ( Baviera 2006) and Sardinia.

Ecology. It lives in soil accumulated in rot holes of old trunks of cork oaks and other broadleaved trees, where it feeds on larvae. According to Penati (1999), the only specimen known from Sardinia was found inside a rot hole in the trunk of an old holm oak, together with adults of the beetle Potosia opaca (Fabricius) ( Coleoptera : Cetoniidae ).