Krasutskii B.V. 2023. [Coleoptera (Insecta, Coleoptera) associated with the xylotrophic fungus Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P. Karst. (Agaricomycetes: Polyporales) in Chelyabinskaya Oblast, the Southern Urals, Russia] // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.22. No.5: 235–245 [in Russian, with English summary].
Laboratory of Reforestation, Forest Protection and Forest Management, Botanical Garden of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Marta Str. 202а, Yekaterinburg 620130 Russia; Chelyabinsk State University, Vasilevskogo Str. 75, Chelyabinsk 454001 Russia. E-mail: boris_k.63@mail.ru
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.22.05.02
ABSTRACT. As a result of many years of research on the territory of the Chelyabinskaya Oblast (Southern Urals), the species composition, ecological and trophic structure and dynamics of the coleoptera community associated with the tinder Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P. Karst. (Meruliaceae) have been studied. 26 species of beetles from 12 families were identified; it was shown that its main inhabitants are Cis boleti (Scopoli, 1763), C. comptus Gyllenhal, 1827, Octothemnus glabriculus (Gyllenhal, 1827), Sulcacis nitidus (Fabricius, 1792) (Ciidae) and Dacne bipustulata (Thunberg, 1781) (Erotylidae), which play a major role in the destruction of dead fruit bodies. Larvae of secretive–living mycetophages Lordithon lunulatus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Staphylinidae), Mycetophagus piceus (Fabricius, 1777) and M. quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Mycetophagidae) are less frequently observed. On live fungi, non-specialized open-living mycetophages are found with respect to this species, feeding mainly on spores — Scaphisoma agaricinum (Linnaeus, 1758), S. subalpinum Reitter, 1881, Gyrophaena bihamata Thomson, 1867 (Staphylinidae), Latridius consimilis Mannerheim, 1844 (Latridiidae). The mycelial layer, mainly under the bark of birch, is inhabited by Cerylon deplanatum Gyllenhal, 1827, C. ferrugineum Stephens, 1830 (Cerylonidae), Rhizophagus parvulus (Paykull, 1800) (Monotomidae), Bitoma crenata (Fabricius, 1755) (Colydiidae), Melandrya dubia (Schaller, 1783) (Melandryidae) and Upis ceramboides (Linnaeus, 1758) (Tenebrionidae), sometimes found on fruit bodies in the imago phase. No specific inhabitants of the basidiomas of B. adusta have been identified.
KEY WORDS: Xylotrophic basidiomycetes, Bjerkandera adusta, Coleoptera, microsuccessions, mycetophilic community.