Immature stages and biology of the enigmatic oxyporine rove beetles, with new data on Oxyporus larvae from the Russian Far East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Author
Tokareva, Alexandra
Author
Solodovnikov, Alexey
Author
Konstantinov, Fedor
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2020
2020-03-31
60
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245
268
journal article
10.37520/aemnp.2020.014
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1804-6487
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Оxyporus
(
Oxyporus
)
stygicus
Say, 1834
Published data.
HANLEY & GOODRICH (1994)
: description of E, L3, P, biology and hosts;
CAMPBELL (1969)
: distribution.
Larval morphology.
Characters of larva to distinguish it from that of
O. vittatus
:
El
1
located anterior to, and medially from, to uppermost ocelli; head seta
L4
present; 3
A
and 3
P
setae on pronotum; 5
A
and 6
P
setae on mesonotum; 6
A
and 7
P
setae on metanotum; 4
A
setae on abdominal tergum I. Body setae median length is bigger than of
O. vittatus
.
Development.
From egg to imago (22–24°C): 16–18 days; egg: 1–2 days; instar I: 1–2 days; instar II: 1–2 days; instar III: 1–2 days; pupa: 7–10 days. Moults were not observed. Instead, three groups of collected and preserved larvae with different body length were interpreted as three larval instars, respectively.
Behavior.
Adults were most commonly collected from fully mature
Pleurotus ostreatus
mushrooms in association with other
Oxyporus
or
Triplax
Herbst, 1793
(
Coleoptera
:
Erotylidae
) species.