New distributional records for sixteen Mordellidae species from the Western Palearctic (Insecta, Coleoptera, Mordellidae)
Author
Selnekovic, David
Author
Ruzzier, Enrico
text
ZooKeys
2019
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151
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.894.39584
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.894.39584
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Mordellistenula longipalpis Ermisch, 1965
Fig. 5A
Mordellistenula longipalpis
Ermisch, 1965: 256-259 [type locality: Belgrader wald, Turkey].
New records.
MONTENEGRO • 8 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; Bar city env., Volujica hill;
42°04'16"N
,
19°6'10"E
; 20 June 2011; D.
Selnekovic
leg.; dry grassland along the seashore, on the flowers of
Helichrysum
; D.
Selnekovic
det.; DSPC.
Distribution.
Armenia (
Horak
2008
), Azerbaijan (
Horak
2008
), Bulgaria (
Ermisch 1969b
), Greece (
Ermisch 1969b
), Kazakhstan (
Odnosum 2003
), North Macedonia (
Horak
2008
), Montenegro (
new country record
), Turkey (
Ermisch 1965
), Ukraine (
Odnosum 2010
), former Yugoslavia (
Horak
2008
, without specification).
Remarks.
This species is known from the Balkans and western Asia. It inhabits dry grasslands where adults feed on flowers of herbaceous plants. The first author observed adults on Mediterranean xeric grassland along the seashore on flowers of
Helichrysum
in Montenegro (
Fig. 2
), and in ruderal vegetation along roadsides on flowers of
Daucus carota
in Bulgaria. The immature stages and their host plants remain unknown.
Figure 5.
A
Mordellistenula longipalpis
Ermisch, 1965, male
B
Mordellochroa milleri
(Emery, 1876), male.