1Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences,
Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 129, CZ-160 00, Praha 6, Czech Republic
e-mail: jh.dermestidae@volny.cz
2Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507/73, CZ-161 06 Praha 6, Czech Republic
e-mail: zbuzek@elateridae.com
3Pohřebačka 34, CZ-533 45 Opatovice nad Labem, Česká republika
e-mail: mertlik@elateridae.com

Abstract. The species Nosodendron fasciculare (A. G. Olivier, 1790) is firstly recorded from Greece: districts Ahaia, Arkadía, Évia and Etolía Akarnanía and Bulgaria.

Key words: faunistics, new records, Coleoptera, Nosodendridae, Nosodendron fasciculare, Bulgaria, Greece.

Introduction

     The small family Nosodendridae (Coleoptera) recently contains 3 genera and 92 species (Háva 2018). The species Nosodendron fasciculare (A. G. Olivier, 1790) known from the sap of fruit trees and other broadleaves. In the short article the species is newly recorded from four localities in Greece and two localities in Bulgaria.

Faunistics

Superfamily Derodontoidea LeConte, 1861

Family Nosodendridae Erichson, 1846

Genus Nosodendron Latreille, 1804

Nosodendron fasciculare (A. G. Olivier, 1790)

Material examined: Greece, distr. AHAIA, Aroánia Óri Mts., 1640 m, 14-15.vi.2016, B. Zbuzek lgt., 1 spec., J. Háva det., B. Zbuzek coll.; Greece, distr. ARKADÍA, Óros Mainalon Mts., 1620 m, 13.vi.2016, B. Zbuzek lgt., 2 spec., J. Háva det., coll. B. Zbuzek & J. Háva; Greece, distr. Arkadía, Óros Mainalon Mts, 1500m, 12.vi.2016, 2 spec., J. Mertlik leg., det. et coll.; Greece, distr. ÉVIA, Dirfys Mts, Xerovouni Mt., 1020 m, firrywood, 29.v.2014, 1 spec., J. Mertlik leg., det. et coll.; Greece, distr. ETOLÍA AKARNANÍA, Panetolikó Mts, Nerosirtis, 1000 m, 5.vi.2013, 2 spec., J. Mertlik leg., det. et coll.; Bulgaria mer., Marica, 4.v.1979, K. Majer lgt., 1 spec., J. háva det. et coll.; Bulgaria mer., Melnik env, 26.v.-5.vi.1985, Macek lgt., 1 spec., J. Háva det. et coll.
 

Habitus of Nosodendron fasciculare (A. G. Olivier, 1790).

Remarks. The body of the species is oval, dorsally convex and ventraly flatt. The antennae composed with 11 antennomeres with distinct 3-antennomered club. Body length 4.0-4.5 mm. Elytra with typical tufts. Mostly at the sap of fruit trees and other broadleaves.

Distribution. Species known from Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Latvia, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia: central European Territory, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine (Steinhammer 2007, Háva 2014), new for Bulgaria and Greece.

References
 

HÁVA J. 2014: Updated World Catalogue of the Nosodendridae (Coleoptera: Derodontoidea). Heteropterus, Revista de Entomología 14(1): 13-24.

HÁVA J. 2018: Distributional notes on some Nosodendridae (Coleoptera) - XVII. Description of a new species from China. Euroasian Entomological Journal 17(2): 120-122.

STEINHAMMER F. 2007: Nosodendridae p. 299. In: Löbl I.& Smetana A. (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 4. Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books, 935 pp.