Hydrosmecta fluviatilis (KRAATZ, 1854)

Assing, Volker, 2019, Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part I. Diversity and endemism (Insecta: Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (2), pp. 197-238 : 228

Hydrosmecta fluviatilis (KRAATZ, 1854)

Material examined: Greece: Crete: 42 exs., ESE Perama, N Garazo , 35°21'05"N, 24°47'01"E, 130 m, stream bank, gravel floated, 4.IV.2012, leg. Assing (cAss) . Lesbos: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 14 km WNW Mytilini, S Lambou Mili, 39°07'51"N, 26°23'55"E, 50 m, stream bank, hand collected and floated from gravel, 20.III.2016, leg. Assing & Hetzel (cAss); 1 ♂, 6.5 km ENE Vatera, Stavros , Vourkos river , 39°02'21"N, 26°16'09"E, 50 m, river bank with gravel, 27.III.2016, leg. Assing & Hetzel (cAss) . Samothraki: 2 ♂♂, W Lakkoma, 40°25'57"N, 25°30'54"E, 20 m, river bank, gravel floated, 9.IV.2019, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ♀, same data, but 16.IV.2019 (cAss); 1 ♂, SSE Ano Meria, 40°26'21"N, 25°41'39"E, 5 m, stream gravel floated, 14.IV.2019, leg. Assing (cAss); 22 ♂♂, 35 ♀♀, SE Ano Meria, 40°26'52"N, 25°41'46"E, 5 m, stream gravel floated, 14.IV.2019, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ♀, SE Kamariotissa, 40°26'48"N, 25°29'53"E, 40 m, bank of temporary stream, gravel floated, 16.IV.2019, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ♀, E Therma, 40°30'03"N, 25°37'00"E, 5 m, stream bank, gravel floated, 17.IV.2019, leg. Assing (cAss) . Mainland: 10 exs., ca. 30 km SW Lamia, bank of Inachos river near Perivoli, 38°49'31"N, 22°04'58"E, 470 m, 5.IV.2001, leg. Assing & Wunderle (cAss); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Lamia env., Kamena Vourla , dry stream bed, 1.VIII.1987 (cAss) . Pelopónnisos: 1 ♂, Sparta , stream bank, debris, 2.IV.1986, leg. Assing (cAss) .

The above material from Crete was recorded as Hydrosmecta sp. by ASSING (2013a), that from Lesbos as Hydrosmecta sp. 1 by ASSING (2016b). According to SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015), H. fluviatilis was previously unknown from Greece.