Mycetophagus (Ulolendus) piceus (Fabricius, 1777)

Stefanelli, Silvia, Della Rocca, Francesca & Bogliani, Giuseppe, 2014, Saproxylic beetles of the Po plain woodlands, Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1106-1106 : 1106

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1106

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scientific name

Mycetophagus (Ulolendus) piceus (Fabricius, 1777)
status

 

Mycetophagus (Ulolendus) piceus (Fabricius, 1777)

Mycetophagus brunneus Panzer, 1798 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus felicius Ragusa, 1892 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus flavotinctus Roubal, 1931 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tritoma histrio C.Sahlberg, 1837 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tritoma humeralis Schilsky, 1888 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus lunaris Fabricius, 1801 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Tritoma punctulatus Schilsky, 1888 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Boleteria undulatus (Marsham, 1802) - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus variabilis Hellwig, 1792 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Boleteria varius Marsham, 1802 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus bosnicus Apfelbeck, 1911 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Mycetophagus hungaricus Papp, 1946 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 4; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124237; scientificName: Mycetophaguspiceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1777; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN1 ; verbatimElevation: 68 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 503258E 5007870N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.224312; decimalLongitude: 9.041499; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 3; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124237; scientificName: Mycetophaguspiceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1777; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN21 ; verbatimElevation: 66 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 506342E 5005026N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.198691; decimalLongitude: 9.080746; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:124237; scientificName: Mycetophaguspiceus; order: Coleoptera; family: Mycetophagidae; genus: Mycetophagus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1777; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN5 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 502886E 5008393N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.229029; decimalLongitude: 9.036770; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Gianfranco Salvato; dateIdentified: 2011 GoogleMaps

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern ( European Environment Agency 2013)

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palaearctic, Near East ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives primary in ancient forests and wood pastures. Both larva and adults are found in the fresh and moist trunks and branches of mainly oak trees, especially if attacked by the fungus Laetiporus sulphureus ( Alexander 2002).