Eledona agricola (Herbst, 1783)

Sivilov, Ognyan & Cvetkovska-Gorgievska, Aleksandra, 2014, Faunistical records of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) from Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia, ZooNotes 2014 (53), pp. 1-7 : 3

Eledona agricola (Herbst, 1783) ( Fig. 1b )

New material: Southwestern Bulgaria, Ograzhden mountain , Lebnitsa river valley, N41°31'22.00" E23°12'38.00", 280 m a.s.l., 15.VI.2012, 4 ex., at night using head lamp, O. Sivilov & B. Zlatkov leg.; Struma river near Rupite place, N41°28'04.37" E23°15'57.42", 90 m a.s.l., 16.VI.2012, 31 ex., hand collecting from old fungus Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill, O. Sivilov & B. Zlatkov leg. ( Fig. 2 ) .

Body length: 2.95-3.75 mm.

Distribution: Europe, Turkey to Turkmenistan, also registered in North Africa – Tunisia.

The authors did not find illustrations of the male genitalia of E. agricola in the literature, therefore such drawings are first depicted on Fig. 4 .

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus [dorsal (left) and ventral (right)] of: Eledonoprius serrifrons ♀ (a); Eledona agricola ♂ (b); Latheticus oryzae ♀ (c); Hymenalia graeca ♀ (d). Scale 1 mm.

Fig. 2. Localities in Bulgaria and Macedonia of: Eledonoprius serrifrons (triangle); Eledona agricola (squares); Latheticus oryzae (circles); Hymenalia graeca (hexagon) (modified Google Earth map).

Fig. 4. Eledona agricola, male genital structures. (A) aedeagus, ventral view; (B) aedeagus, lateral view; (C) VIII inner sternite; (D) gastral spicula. Scale 0.5 mm.