Published April 28, 2026 | Version v1
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Aulonium ruficorne

  • 1. Sofia University " St Kliment Ohridski ", Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2. National Genetic Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria & Faculty of Forestry, University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria

Description

Aulonium ruficorne (A. G. Olivier, 1790)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000780; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov & Yana Petrova; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: C9D0BD33-2645-5BDD-9409-DDD686290C16; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Haskovo; municipality: Topolovgrad; locality: Sakar Mountains, SE of Ustrem Village; verbatimElevation: 215 m; decimalLatitude: 41.972583; decimalLongitude: 26.483117; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under peeled pine bark; verbatimEventDate: 14. iv. 2023; habitat: mixed forest

Distribution

Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Spain, South European Territory of Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, European and Asian Türkiye, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia (Schuh 2020); Portugal (Molina 2023).

Notes

This species has been previously reported for Bulgaria without exact locality (Ślipiński and Schuh 2008, Schuh 2020). In the present study, we report A. ruficorne from Sakar Mountains (Fig. 3) and, thus, confirm the presence of this species for the country.

Notes

Published as part of Gradinarov, Denis, Petrova, Yana, Sivilov, Ognyan & Stefanov, Vladimir Stefanovich, 2026, Checklist of the family Zopheridae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea) of Bulgaria, pp. e 192174 in Biodiversity Data Journal 14 on page e192174, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e192174

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Material sample ID
BFUS-COL 000780
Scientific name authorship
A. G. Olivier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Zopheridae
Genus
Aulonium
Species
ruficorne
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Aulonium ruficorne (Olivier, 1790) sec. Gradinarov, Petrova, Sivilov & Stefanov, 2026

References

  • Schuh R. 2020 Family Zopheridae Solier, 1834 Iwan D., Löbl I. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Tenebrionoidea. Revised and updated 2 nd edition Volume 5 Brill Leiden & Boston 970
  • Molina D. 2023 Contribución al conocimiento del género Aulonium Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) en la provincia de Alicante (España) Arquivos Entomolóxicos 27 17 22
  • Ślipiński S. A., Schuh R. 2008 Family Zopheridae Solier, 1834 Löbl I., Smetana A. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea Apollo Books Stenstrup 670