Epuraea guttata (Oliver, 1811)

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

Epuraea guttata (Oliver, 1811)

Nitidula decemguttata Fabricius, 1792 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 12; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:377721; scientificName: Epuraeaguttata; order: Coleoptera; family: Nitidulidae; genus: Epuraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Olivier 1811; 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: Paolo Audisio; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 6; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:377721; scientificName: Epuraeaguttata; order: Coleoptera; family: Nitidulidae; genus: Epuraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Olivier 1811; 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: Paolo Audisio; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 39; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:377721; scientificName: Epuraeaguttata; order: Coleoptera; family: Nitidulidae; genus: Epuraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Olivier 1811; 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: Paolo Audisio; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 52; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:377721; scientificName: Epuraeaguttata; order: Coleoptera; family: Nitidulidae; genus: Epuraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Olivier 1811; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi Siro Negri e Moriano" - BN10 ; verbatimElevation: 76 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 504479E 5006332N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.210461; decimalLongitude: 9.057038; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Paolo Audisio; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 3; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:377721; scientificName: Epuraeaguttata; order: Coleoptera; family: Nitidulidae; genus: Epuraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Olivier 1811; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V1 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519272E 4999526N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148947; decimalLongitude: 9.245157; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Paolo Audisio; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 5; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:377721; scientificName: Epuraeaguttata; order: Coleoptera; family: Nitidulidae; genus: Epuraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Olivier 1811; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V2 ; verbatimElevation: 65 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519868E 4999488N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148589; decimalLongitude: 9.252737; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Paolo Audisio; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

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

Notes

The larva develops in forests in mainly fermented sap and at the exit of galleries dug into the wood by other beetles. The adult sporadically attends the same microhabitat of larva, but it is also found on inflorescences and fermented fruit ( Audisio 1993).