Atheta zosterae (Thomson, 1856)

Glotov, S., Hushtan, K., Hushtan, H., Koval, N. & Diedus, V., 2022, The Genus Atheta (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) In The Ukrainian Carpathians, Zoodiversity 56 (2), pp. 91-110 : 102

Atheta zosterae (Thomson, 1856) ( fig. 1 , j)

Material. 7 ex. IFR: Pistyn [Pištyn], date not specified, 1 ex. ; LWI: Ivano-Frankove [Janów], date not specified, 1 ex. ; Lviv [ok. Lwowa ], 22.5. [year not specified], 3 ex. ; same locality, [Lwіw], date not specified, 2 ex. ( SMNH) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan ( Schülke & Smetana, 2015). In the Ukrainian Carpathians known from Transcarpathian Region, Uzhhorod ( Roubal, 1930). Without specifying the territory is given in the catalogs of Galicia and Poland ( Łomnicki, 1884, 1913).

Bionomics. The species occurs in forests and on open steppe and meadow areas, at foothills and high in the mountains, where they live in forest litter, in decaying plant residues, in fungi, in holes of rodents, in nests of birds, in ant hills, and on flowing sap of trees. Adults occur in V–IX ( Bogdanov 1985; Semenov, 2007; Glotov, 2021).

Subgenus Dimetrota Mulsant & Rey, 1873

Atheta atramentaria (Gyllenhal, 1810) ( fig. 1 , k)

Material. 2 ex. IFR: Vorokhta [Worochta], date not specified, 2 ex. ( SMNH) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Holarctic, Afrotropical and Oriental Regions ( Schülke & Smetana, 2015). In the Ukrainian Carpathians known from Transcarpathian Region, mountain Hoverla ( Rybiński, 1903). “ Poland ”, without indication of region ( Łomnicki, 1913).

Bionomics. The species occurs both in lowlands and high in the mountains, almost exclusively in open, unforested areas, in meadows, forest glades and meadows, or on border of forests and meadows in the manure of cattle and wild animals ( Semenov, 2007).

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus: a — Atheta coriaria (Kraatz, 1856); b — A. divisa (Märkel, 1844); c — A. graminicola (Gravenhorst, 1806); d — A. oblita (Erichson, 1839); e — A. ravilla (Erichson, 1839); f — A. macrocera (Thomson, 1856); g — A. occulta (Erichson, 1837); h — A. longicornis (Gravenhorst, 1802); i — A. melanaria (Mannerheim, 1830); j — A. zosterae (Thomson, 1856); k — A. atramentaria (Gyllenhal, 1810); l — A. marcida (Erichson, 1837); m — A. subtilis (Scriba, 1866); n — A. amicula (Stephens, 1832); o — A. laticollis Stephens, 1832; p — A. liturata (Stephens, 1832); q — A. nigritula (Gravenhorst, 1802).