Atheta sordidula (Erichson, 1837)

Glotov, S., Hushtan, K., Hushtan, H., Koval, N. & Diedus, V., 2022, The Genus Atheta (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) In The Ukrainian Carpathians, Zoodiversity 56 (1), pp. 91-110 : 102

Atheta sordidula (Erichson, 1837)

Material. 5 ex. LWI: Ivano-Frankove [Janów], date not specified, 2 ex.; same locality but, 4.9. [1]917 ,

1 ex.; same locality but, 9.9. [1]917 , 1 ex.; Lviv [ Lw ], 16.7. [year not specified], 1 ex. ( SMNH) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe, Caucasus, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Far East, Oriental Regions ( Schülke & Smetana, 2015). In the Ukrainian Carpathians known from Chernivtsi Region, Chernivtsi ( Hormuzaki, 1888, 1889) and 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 both in lowlands and high in the mountains, in deciduous and mixed forests, meadows and mountain meadow, along rivers and reservoirs, where they live in forest litter, in rotten wood, in rotten hay and grass, on the flowing sap of trees, in mature and in rotten fungi, in coastal deposits, sometimes on animal cadavers and in manure, and burrows and nests of mammals ( Roubal, 1930; Semenov, 2007).