Published June 4, 2021 | Version v1
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Sulcacis nitidus

  • 1. Museum of Nature V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 8 Trinkler Street, Kharkiv, Ukraine 61058. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9855 - 8421
  • 2. Department of Plant Protection, Yadegar-e- Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

Description

22- Sulcacis nitidus (Fabricius, 1792)

Distribution in Iran: Golestan, Guilan, Mazandaran (Amini et al. 2020), Yazd (Samin et al. 2018b).

General distribution: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Central, North and South European Territory, Far East), Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

Habitat: The way of life is very similar to the previous species, inhabits one species of tinder fungus, often together.

Comments: Reared from fungus on Populus sp. (Salicaceae) (Amini et al. 2020). Stenopogon laevigatus (Loew, 1851) (Diptera: Asilidae) was collected as the predator of Sulcacis nitidus in Yazd.

Notes

Published as part of Drogvalenko, Alexander N. & Ghahari, Hassan, 2021, An annotated checklist of Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of Iran, pp. 317-330 in Zootaxa 4981 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4920512

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ciidae
Genus
Sulcacis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Species
nitidus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sulcacis nitidus (Fabricius, 1792) sec. Drogvalenko & Ghahari, 2021

References

  • Amini, S., Krolik, R., Nozari, J., Farashiani, M. E. & Kazerani, F. (2020) A survey of Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Hyrcanian forest (Iran) with new faunistic records. Zoodiversity, 54 (4), 317 - 328. https: // doi. org / 10.15407 / zoo 2020.04.317
  • Samin, N., Bunalski, M., Kubisz, D., Hava, J., Navaeian, M., Otero, J. C., Hawkeswood, T. J., Zhou, H., Sakenin, H. & Jedryczkowski, W. B. (2018 b) Contributions to the knowledge of the distribution of select Coleoptera families from Iran. Wiadomosci Entomologiczne, 37 (4), 197 - 209.