Saproxylic beetles of the Po plain woodlands, Italy Author Stefanelli, Silvia Author Della Rocca, Francesca Author Bogliani, Giuseppe text Biodiversity Data Journal 2014 2 1106 1106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1106 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1106 1314-2828--1106 Bitoma crenata (Fabricius, 1775) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli ; individualCount: 11 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127036; scientificName: Bitomacrenata; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Bitoma; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1775; 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: Claudio Canepari ; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli ; individualCount: 20 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127036; scientificName: Bitomacrenata; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Bitoma; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1775; 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: Claudio Canepari ; dateIdentified: 2011 Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:127036; scientificName: Bitomacrenata; order: Coleoptera; family: Zopheridae; genus: Bitoma; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1775; 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: Claudio Canepari ; dateIdentified: 2011 Distribution Austria, Azores, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Danish mainland, European Turkey, Faroe Is., Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Moldova Republic of, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Near East ( Fauna Europaea 2013 ). Notes The species lives in ancient wood pastures. It lives under the bark of beech and oak tree deadwood in the early stages of decay and still sappy. It can also be found on birch, horse chestnut, and sycamore trees. The larva and adults are gregarious ( Alexander 2002 , Hurka 2005 ).