Langelandia (Langelandia) anophthalma Aube 1842
Authors/Creators
- 1. Sofia University " St Kliment Ohridski ", Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2. National Genetic Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria & Faculty of Forestry, University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
Description
Langelandia (Langelandia) anophthalma Aubé, 1842
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000849; recordedBy: Vladimir Stefanov & Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 003A78CA-906A-5126-BCF5-659E9D152C7C; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia Valley, Kremikovtsi locality; verbatimElevation: 696 m; decimalLatitude: 42.792450; decimalLongitude: 23.492717; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under nest of Spermophilus citellus L.; verbatimEventDate: 17. vii. 2019; habitat: pasture
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000850; recordedBy: Vladimir Stefanov & Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 1ACD2470-950D-5A54-95C8-5A1ED3F1F143; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia Valley, Kremikovtsi locality; verbatimElevation: 690 m; decimalLatitude: 42.791567; decimalLongitude: 23.503700; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: in nest of Spermophilus citellus L.; verbatimEventDate: 02. iii. 2021; habitat: pasture
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000851; recordedBy: Vladimir Stefanov & Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 38470FDF-8C1A-5968-A9CE-4C6ACCDD8002; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia Valley, Kremikovtsi locality; verbatimElevation: 699 m; decimalLatitude: 42.792633; decimalLongitude: 23.491717; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: in burrow of Spermophilus citellus L.; verbatimEventDate: 02. iii. 2021; habitat: pasture
Distribution
Austria, Czechia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro (Schuh 2020); Bulgaria (Bekchiev and Guéorguiev 2015; present study).
Notes
Langelandia anophthalma is a highly variable species with a wide distributional range in Europe (Dajoz 1969; Orousset 1989). We consider its relatively larger body size and the morphology of the aedeagus as the main features for distinguishing it from other similar species in the subgenus Langelandia (Dajoz 1969; Orousset 1989). For Bulgaria, L. anophthalma is mentioned without exact locality by Bekchiev and Guéorguiev (2015): 339. The species is not listed for Bulgaria in both editions of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Ślipiński and Schuh 2008; Schuh 2020). Herein, we confirm the presence of L. anophthalma in Bulgaria and record the notable cases of the species inhabiting the burrows (including the nesting materials) of the European souslik (Spermophilus citellus L.) (Fig. 10).
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e192174.figure1 (DOI)
- Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1564400 (URL)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e192174 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/915CB69E86C059A9AB99BBB6B2017B00 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/CBAC3DD6ED7B562B8F2A836248217366 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Material sample ID
- BFUS-COL 000849 , BFUS-COL 000850 , BFUS-COL 000851
- Scientific name authorship
- Aube
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Zopheridae
- Genus
- Langelandia
- Species
- anophthalma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- Other material
- Taxonomic concept label
- Langelandia (Langelandia) anophthalma Aube, 1842 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
- Bekchiev R., Guéorguiev B. 2015 First purposive study of beetles (Coleoptera) from endogean environments in Bulgaria: collection sites and preliminary results Biodiversity Journal 6 1 327 340
- Dajoz R. 1969 Révision des Colydiidae anophtalmes de la faune paléarctique. 3. Étude morphologique et biometrique de Langelandia anophtalma Aubé et de Langelandia reitteri Bellon Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 40 710 717
- Orousset J. 1989 Coléoptères hypogés de Corse. XX: Le genre Langelandia Aubé (Coleoptera, Colydiidae) L'Entomologiste 45 2 67 82
- 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