Synchita undata Guerin-Meneville 1844
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
Synchita undata Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000864; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: DB2BF278-6A11-52F6-B052-490F0062AFB5; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia City, Borisova Gradina Park; verbatimElevation: 579 m; decimalLatitude: 42.679133; decimalLongitude: 23.335667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under bark of linden stump; verbatimEventDate: 11. iv. 2025; habitat: mixed forest
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000865; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 338CDE1F-0F9B-57B8-BDC0-AC4A702F0E69; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia City, Borisova Gradina Park; verbatimElevation: 579 m; decimalLatitude: 42.679133; decimalLongitude: 23.335667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under bark of linden stump; verbatimEventDate: 11. iv. 2025; habitat: mixed forest
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000866; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 5CCBF18D-B321-513A-B602-06ABC63CF2B3; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia City, Borisova Gradina Park; verbatimElevation: 579 m; decimalLatitude: 42.679133; decimalLongitude: 23.335667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under bark of linden stump; verbatimEventDate: 11. iv. 2025; habitat: mixed forest
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000867; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: BCAEA6DE-9433-5D0E-AE73-FA8D32F0F82B; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia City, Borisova Gradina Park; verbatimElevation: 579 m; decimalLatitude: 42.679133; decimalLongitude: 23.335667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under bark of linden stump; verbatimEventDate: 11. iv. 2025; habitat: mixed forest
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000868; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 12BE0BE1-DE76-5DCC-A0F1-7B5DC48161FA; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia City, Borisova Gradina Park; verbatimElevation: 579 m; decimalLatitude: 42.679133; decimalLongitude: 23.335667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under bark of linden stump; verbatimEventDate: 11. iv. 2025; habitat: mixed forest
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-COL 000869; recordedBy: Denis Gradinarov; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: EE5DAA97-971E-5BA4-92E3-BA73B38E6CC7; Location: country: Bulgaria; stateProvince: Sofia City; municipality: Stolichna; locality: Sofia City, Borisova Gradina Park; verbatimElevation: 579 m; decimalLatitude: 42.679133; decimalLongitude: 23.335667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Denis Gradinarov; dateIdentified: 2026; Event: samplingProtocol: under bark of linden stump; verbatimEventDate: 11. iv. 2025; habitat: mixed forest
Distribution
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Slovenia, South European Territory of Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine (Schuh 2020); Poland (Ruta 2020); Iran (Farashiani et al. 2022); Moldova (Bacal 2023); Asian Türkiye (Sürgüt and Varli 2023); Belgium (Thomaes et al. 2025).
Notes
In Bulgaria, this species has recently been reported from southern Dobrudzha (Trigortsi Village) and from Petrich (Guéorguiev et al. 2026: 4). Here, we report S. undata from the city park in Sofia (Fig. 14).
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e192174.figure1 (DOI)
- Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1564408 (URL)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e192174 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/915CB69E86C059A9AB99BBB6B2017B00 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/FD1596FB92F85776A1A5109DD3F2CABA (URL)
Biodiversity
- Material sample ID
- BFUS-COL 000864 , BFUS-COL 000865 , BFUS-COL 000866 , BFUS-COL 000867 , BFUS-COL 000868 , BFUS-COL 000869
- Scientific name authorship
- Guerin-Meneville
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Zopheridae
- Genus
- Synchita
- Species
- undata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- Other material
- Taxonomic concept label
- Synchita undata Guerin-Meneville, 1844 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
- Ruta R. 2020 New localities of Colobicus hirtus (Rossi, 1790) and Synchita undata (Guérin-Ménéville, 1844) (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) in Poland Entomological News (Poland) 39 3 17 19 10.5281/zenodo.3946694
- Farashiani Mohammad Ebrahim, Varandi Hassan Barimani, Kazerani Frazane, Yarmand Hamid, Babaee Mohammadreza, Thorn Simon, Lange Frank, Rafiei-Jahed Razieh, Müller Jörg, Amini Sudabe 2022 A preliminary checklist of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran, with distributional data Check List 18 5 1063 1120 10.15560/18.5.1053
- Bacal S. 2023 Coleopterele saproxilice și rolul lor pentru ecosistemele forestiere: ghid științifco-metodic Căpăţînă-Print Chişinău 94 10.53937/9789975364447
- Sürgüt H., Varli S. V. 2023 Researches on determination of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) on old hollow broad-leaved tree species in Cataldag (Balıkesir-Bursa) in Western Türkiye Biological Diversity and Conservation 16 2 102 113 10.46309/biodicon.2023.1247666
- Thomaes A., Drumont A., Smets K., Crèvecoeur L., Troukens W., Fagot J., Dekoninck W. 2025 Checklist of the beetles of Belgium (Coleoptera) Belgian Journal of Entomology 158 1 181
- Guéorguiev Borislav, Ivanov Veselin, Georgieva Margarita, Belilov Sevdalin, Petrova Denitsa, Georgiev Georgi 2026 New records of arboreal beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Bulgaria Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 48 1 1 8 10.48027/hnb.48.011