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
Calambus bipustulatus (Linneaus, 1767)
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
Silvia Stefanelli
; individualCount:
1
; lifeStage:
adult
; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:235800; scientificName: Calambusbipustulatus; order: Coleoptera; family: Elateridae; genus: Calambus; nomenclaturalCode: Linnaeus 1767; 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:
Giuseppe Platia
; dateIdentified: 2011
Ecological interactions
Conservation status
Least Concern (
European Environment Agency 2013
).
Distribution
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia Northwest, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palaearctic (
Fauna Europaea 2013
).
Notes
The species is found in the winter under the bark of old oak trees such as lindens, elms, poplars, and mulberry trees. The larva is a predator living in the soft rotten wood of stumps and trunks on the same plant as the adult, especially oaks (
Platia 1994
,
Alexander 2002
).