Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy Della Rocca, Francesca Stefanelli, Silvia Cardarelli, Elisa Bogliani, Giuseppe Bracco, Francesco Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-01-25 9 57889 57889 4N37H DDD9E965-C302-55B4-A035-64F7C296E6ED Stephens, 1834 Stephens 1834 Insecta Staphylinidae Proteinus GBIF,CoL Animalia Proteinus ovalis Coleoptera 0 57889 Arthropoda species ovalis  Distribution European species ( ITIS Species 2000 2020). In Italy, it is widespread ( Ruffo and Stoch 2005).  Notes Lives forests (floodplain, mountain and hill)), banks, screes, reforestation areas ( Picea, Pinus), pastures, banks of stream, parks, subalpine bushes (  Pinus mugo,  Alnus), disused quarries, dry meadows, margin of pastures with trees, subalpine grasslands, tumbled limestones, row of trees (  Quercus), caves, meadows, hill bushes, historical gardens, vineyards, wetlands, lakeshore with  Phragmitetum, floodplains, riverbanks, marshy areas (  Phragmitetum,  Caricetum), damaged marshy areas, orchards, sandy small areas, vegetable crops, permanent meadows and wetlands near source ( Zanetti et al. 2016).