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Habitus of adult Oxythyrea funesta, dorsal view (photo by Kiril V. Makarov, available on the website: www.zin.ru\Animalia\Coleoptera).
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The current article deals with the distribution of Oxythyrea funesta (Poda, 1761) in Lithuania. Until 2001, there were no reports on the species from Lithuania: it was known only from old records going as far back as the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The species was considered very rare in Lithuania but a...
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... other Cetoniinae beetles, adults of O. funesta are diurnal. They feed on blooms of various plants, espe- cially those of Asteracea, Rosacea, Apiacea, Brassicacea and Fabacea. However, flowers of other families are vis- ited less frequently. The species was included in the lists of harmful fauna as a pest of apple and peach orchards, vineyards, rosebush plantations, some vegetables and field crops in most countries of southern Europe feeding not only on pollen but damaging floral organs and even buds (Benfatto and Longo 1986;Milenkovic and Stanisavljevic 2003;Vuts, Imrei, and Tóth 2008;Ražov, Baric, and Dutto 2009;Stan, Tuca, and Mitrea 2009;Tuca, Mitrea, and Stan 2009;Ciancio and Mukerji 2010;Subchev et al. 2012). Adults are quite conspicuous having a flat, rectangular-shaped, 8-12 mm long body, which is metallescent black in colour with a reddish- greenish shine. The surface of the body is sparsely covered with yellowish-whitish hairs, pronotum and elytra with whitish spots (Figure 1). Older specimens become hairless with blind spots. Larvae of O. funesta develop in substrates rich in organic matter of rotten vegetation origin (Ražov, Baric, and Dutto 2009), but are most frequently found in manure and dung heaps or decaying vegetative matter (Micó and Galante 2003). Some authors described larvae of O. funesta as *Corresponding author. Email: adm@zoomuziejus.lt hemi-phytophagous, feeding on small roots of plants ( Burakowki, Mroczkowski, and Stefańska 1983) or as eaters of putrescent roots and stumps of ligneous plants ( Medvedev ...
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... Tribe Cetoniini Leach, 1815 Oxythyrea funesta Poda von Neuhaus, 1761 Regional distribution: from the Mediterranean coast to the northern edge of the Sahara (Baraud, 1985;Mitter, 2011;Chavanon et al., 2015;Tamadouni and Arahou, 2017;Vondráček et al., 2018;Chavanon, 2020). General distribution: Palaearctic species: most of Europe up to the Ural Mountains and the Caucase, North Africa, Cyprus, Iran, Kazakhstani, Turkey and West Siberia (Bunalski, 1999;Silfverberg, 2004;Šablevičius, 2004Bukejs et al., 2006;Horak et al., 2009Horak et al., , 2013Pivotti et al., 2011;Barclay and Notton, 2013;Tamutis and Dapkus, 2014;Daas et al., 2016;Thomaes et al., 2016;Löbl and Löbl, 2016;Vondráček et al., 2018;Zemouri et al., 2021). ...
Llista patró d'escarabats terrestres (Arthropoda, Insecta, Coleoptera) associada a agroecosistemes al nord-oest del Marroc
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... However, roughly since 1990, the species has expanded north and eastwards (Tamutis & Dapkus, 2013;Volynkin et al., 2011). Oxythyrea funesta is now regarded as a ubiquitous extralimital invader and even as a possible agricultural pest (Vuts et al., 2008;Horák et al., 2013;Horák, 2016) ranging from Canary Islands up to Central Asia. ...
Flower chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) are usually associated with saproxylophagous life strategies, and several of these taxa are considered as flagship species of insect conservation in Europe.
Here, we discuss the significance of soil‐dwelling flower chafers for the conservation of natural habitats by reporting the rediscovery of two relict, habitat specialist flower chafers of the genus Oxythyrea in Europe.
We compare the observed population structure of both species with their widespread congeners and discuss the detected deep genetic divergences among populations of both species, O. dulcis and O. albopicta .
Surprisingly, deep genetic structure has been observed among the psammophilous O. dulcis , which is quite counterintuitive as psammophilous habitats are rather ephemeral and these species tend to be very vagile.
Populations of soil‐dwelling, habitat specialist flower beetles may represent relicts of the past paleogeographic events, and their conservation value has to be thoroughly assessed.
... In the past, this species was rarely found in xerothermic areas in Poland. However, it commonly occurs throughout a wide spectrum of open habitats (Horák et al. 2009) and continues to extend its range further north (e.g., Roosileht 2003, Bukejs et al. 2006, Wolender and Zych 2007, Tamutis and Dapkus 2014, Horák 2016, Thomaes et al. 2016. One probable cause for the increased range of S. sexmaculata is the increase in the population of O. funesta. ...
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The current report presents information on new records of Crioceris asparagi (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera; Chrysomelidae) in Lithuania. This species was known only from old records going as far back as the middle of nineteen century till 2011. The recent records of C. asparagi suggest the presence of viable population of this species in southwestern part of the country.
... No exceptions are the beetles (Coleoptera) as well. Sporadical records of some rare species of beetles are scattered in several previous faunistic papers (Pileckis, 1963Pileckis, , 1968 Pileckis & Monsevičius, 1982; Monsevičius, 1982 Monsevičius, , 1983 Monsevičius, , 1985 Monsevičius, , 1988 Monsevičius, , 2013 Perkovskis & Monsevičius, 1988; Auglys, 1994; Monsevičius & Pankevičius, 2001; Šablevičius, 2003 Pankevičius, 2007; Švitra & Aliukonis, 2009; Ivinskis et al., 2009; Tamutis et al., 2010; Blažytė-Čereškienė & Karalius, 2010; Tamutis & Dapkus, 2014). Unfortunately any data on this order of insects in the territory of Žaliosios pievų Botanical-Zological preserve have been published before. ...
Seit 2018 ist der Trauer-Rosenkäfer O. funesta auch im Landkreis Zwickau sicher nachgewiesen. Die Besiedlung erfolgte verglichen mit anderen Gebieten Sachsens vergleichsweise spät, was die Frage nach dem bevorzugten Migrationsweg aufwarf. Ausgehend von den Fundmeldungen in der Zentralen Artdatenbank Sachsen, den
Fundnachweisen des Bürgerwissenschaftlichen Projekts „Insekten Sachsen“ und eigenen Beobachtungen wird die Migration von O. funesta in Sachsen untersucht. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass der Trauer-Rosenkäfer den Landkreis Zwickau aus der Tschechischen Republik kommend, über den Kamm des mittleren und östlichen Erzgebirges hinweg, erreichte. Die Analyse der Migrationsbewegung von O. funesta erfolgt für Sachsen erstmals quantitativ anhand von 599 Einzelsichtungen im Zeitraum 2007 bis 2020.
