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Georeferenced records of Greek Salpingidae according to the available literature and examined material. Locality records covering a large geographic area e.g. von Oertzen (1886) and Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1985) are not depicted.
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Salpingidae are a small family of beetles living mainly under the bark of deciduous forest trees and conifers, feeding on fungi, organic matter and other insects. A total of 23 species are known in the Western Palearctic out of which only six have been recorded in Greece. Material surveys of the first author during the last decades unveil ten speci...
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... (iNaturalist 2022) as well as specimens deposited in the private collection of the first author (GK) and Mr Thomas Barnouin (Laboratoire National d'Entomologie Forestière, Office National des Forêts) (TB) (Appendix 1). Data were mapped using QGIS Version 3.18.2 free and open source Geographic Information System (https://qgis.org/en/site/) (Fig. ...
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... early reports providing no detail regarding precise localities, the habitat and ecology of reported species (von Oertzen 1886;Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1985). Despite the small number of records traced in the scientific literature, the total of 18 additional records, provide important distributional and ecological data for ten species inhabiting Greece (Fig. 1). For example, the recent discovery of L. denticollis in Greece ( Chehlarov et al. 2016) is supplemented by three records of the species from Northern Greece and Peloponnese collected on beech, poplar and plane trees. Although, L. denticollis is known to be polyphagous (Barnouin and Zagatti 2017) P. orientalis and Populus sp. are ...
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... This explains the family's association (detritivorous habits) with PA areas. On the other hand, beetles from the Salpingidae family are mainly found under the bark of trees in deciduous and coniferous forests, feeding on fungi, OM, and other insects (Kakiopoulos and Demetriou, 2022), which explains the greater diversity of this associated family to the highest VegCover rates ( Figure 5). ...
The alteration of the natural landscape structure affects abiotic conditions and promotes a biological response in the local community. The diversity of edaphic organisms is related to the diversity of other taxa and abiotic characteristics, which represent potential bioindicators of the ecosystem. The objective of this study was to identify which soil attributes explain the beetle community and explore their effects through spatial modeling. The study was conducted in three landscapes in western Santa Catarina (Brazil), located in Chapecó, Pinhalzinho, and São Miguel do Oeste. The land use and cover systems identified were: no-till farming, native forest, pasture, eucalyptus planting, crop-livestock integration, and shrub vegetation. Soil, plant litter, and Coleoptera samples were collected. The variables were selected through the Threshold Indicator Taxa Analysis and spatial modeling by Geostatistics. Higher values of soil penetration resistance, associated with the no-till system, resulted in a lower abundance of Staphylinidae beetles, conditioned by total soil porosity. Lower volumetric moisture values, identified in the no-till system near native vegetation fragments, led to increased abundance of Nitidulidae family beetles, due to the family's adaptability to dry environments. The trend of higher microbial carbon concentration in native vegetation areas explained the greater abundance of Chrysomelidae family beetles in these areas, due to the phytophagous habits of the species in this family. Thus, the Coleoptera community has the potential to serve as bioindicators of soil quality, and their relationships with soil physics, chemical, and microbial attributes can be spatially modeled through Geostatistics.
