Atheta crassicornis (Fabricius, 1792)

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 : 96-97

Atheta crassicornis (Fabricius, 1792)

Material. 54 ex. CER: Chernivtsi [Bucowina. Czernowits], data not specified, 3 ex. ( ZMTSNU). IFR: Vorokhta [Worochta], date not specified, 6 ex. ; same locality but, date not specified, 1 ex., coll. Grolle. LWI: Ivano-Frankove [Janów], 10.4. [year not specified], 1 ex., leg. A. Stoeckel , same locality but, date not specified, 2 ex. ; Roztochia Biosphere Reserve , 24.08.1988, 1 ex., leg. A. Petrenko ( SIZK). Lviv [Lwów], 18.3. [1]925, 1 ex. ; same locality but, 28.3. [1]925, 1 ex. ; same locality but, 24.4. [1]925, 1 ex. ; same locality but, date not specified, 3 ex. ; same locality but, 29.3. [year not specified], 2 ex., coll. Grolle ; same locality but, [ok. Lwowa ], date not specified, 1 ex., coll. Grolle ; same locality but, Holosko [H], 13.9. [year not specified], 1 ex. ; same locality but, Pohulanka [Pohulanka], 14.4. 1917, 1 ex. ; same locality but, 5.5. [19]16, 1 ex., leg. Grolle, coll. Grolle ; locality not specified, 25.7. [year not specified], 1 ex. ( SMNH). ZAK: Mala Uholka , 16.10.1984, 4 ex., leg. V. Chumak ; same locality but, 13.08.1990, 3 ex., leg. V. Chumak ( SIZK) ; mountain Yavirnyk , 21.05. — 02.07.2009, 1 ex., leg. Yu. Kanarskyi ; Polianskyi , 14.05– 19.06.2009, 1 ex., leg. Yu. Kanarskyi ; Kuzii , 15.04. — 15.05.2009, 1 ex., leg. Yu. Kanarskyi ; same locality, 15.05– 20.06.2009, 1 ex., leg. Yu. Kanarskyi ( SMNH) ; Stinka mountain range , ecotone, 21.06.2018, 7 ex. ; same locality but, ecotone, 23.08.2018, 3 ex. , same locality but, forest, 18.05.2019, 2 ex. , mountain range Yavirnyk , mountain meadow, 27.06.2018, 9 ex. , same locality but, ecotone, 29.08.2018, 2 ex. leg. N. Koval ( KKOV) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Palaearctic (excluding Far East) ( Schülke & Smetana, 2015). In the Ukrainian Carpathians known from the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains ( Mateleshko, 2008), Transcarpathian Region, Kuzii locality, Mountain Polianskyi (Glotov et al., 2020) and Lviv Region, Pohulanka, Klepariv, Holosko ( Łomnicki, 1890; 1891). “ Poland ”, without indication of region ( Łomnicki, 1913).

Bionomics. The species occurs in lowlands, in foothills as well as high in the mountains in deciduous and mixed forests, in meadows and in artificial plantations, in forest litter, along rivers and reservoirs, under wet leaves and in plant remains, as well as in many agaric and pore fungi ( Łomnicki, 1891; Glotov, 2021).