Paromalus (Paromalus) flavicornis (Herbst, 1792)

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

Paromalus (Paromalus) flavicornis (Herbst, 1792)

Hister parvulus Rossi, 1792 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Hister picipes Fabricius, 1798 - Fauna Europaea (2013)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 9; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:120019; scientificName: Paromalusflavicornis; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Paromalus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herbst 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 24; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:120019; scientificName: Paromalusflavicornis; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Paromalus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herbst 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 23; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:120019; scientificName: Paromalusflavicornis; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Paromalus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herbst 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 58; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:120019; scientificName: Paromalusflavicornis; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Paromalus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herbst 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 58; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:120019; scientificName: Paromalusflavicornis; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Paromalus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herbst 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 93; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:120019; scientificName: Paromalusflavicornis; order: Coleoptera; family: Histeridae; genus: Paromalus; scientificNameAuthorship: Herbst 1792; 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: Fabio Penati; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Balearic Is., Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyclades Is., Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Dodecanese Is., European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova Republic of, North Aegean Is., Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species lives in old parks and ancient woodlands. It is found under the preferably dead bark of trees such as poplar, willow, oak, beech, walnut, chestnut, and maritime pine trees. It sometimes lives associated with ants such as Lasius fuliginosus and Formica cunicularia . The larva is a predator of other insect larvae and is often found in the burrows of Bostrychus sp. and Crypturgus pusillus . The adult appears in the spring and at the end of summer ( Alexander 2002, Vienna 1980).