Naslov
First Record of the Saproxylic Beetle Cossonus parallele-pipedus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Autori
Vesnic, Adi ; Mujezinovic, Osman ; Kulijer, Dejan ; Ivojevic, Sead, Dautbasic, Mirza ; Pernek, Milan

Izvornik
SEEFOR-South-east European forestry (1847-6481) 12 (2021), 2; 143-147

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
weevil ; wood boring ; insect decaying ; wood biodiversity ; Abies alba

Sažetak
Balkan Peninsula is considered to be a hotspot of beetle biodiversity. Registering occurrence of saproxylic beetles is an important first step for expanding the general knowledge about saproxylic beetles as ecologically important insect species. Cossonus parallelepipedus is a European saproxylic species distributed from Iberian Peninsula in the west to Russia in the east, and from the Mediterranean in the south to Fennoscandia in the north. The first, and until now the only find of this species for the Balkan Peninsula is from Croatia. We report the first find of C. parallelepipedus in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In April 2020, larvae, pupae and imagoes were collected, in the central part of BiH, north of Sarajevo, on Zvijezda Mt. near Vares from decaying moist wood in the lower part of a tree trunk of European silver fir, Abies alba. We expect that this species has a wider presence, especially in mountain areas in the central part of the country. Due to the similar environment conditions for other two European Cossonus species (C. cylindrus and C. linearis) their presence is also possible.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija, Šumarstvo, Biotehnologija

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