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07.04.2023
Plectophloeus nitidus (Fairm., 1857)
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The 1.3 to 1.5 mm large short-winged mold beetle Plectophloeus nitidus (family Pselaphidae) is one of six representatives of the genus in Germany. In the Western Palearctic the genus comprises 12 species. Plectophloeus nitidus is known to occur in Western, Central and Southeast Europe. In the North it reaches the British Isles, Denmark and South Sweden. The stenotopic, hygrophilous and silvicolous species lives in deciduous forests, parks and floodplains in moist, rotting wood (red-rotten oak wood seems to be preferred), also in wood detritus, under bark and in rotting brushwood. Often they live close to ants of genus Lasius. They feed on other small insects and mites. In the German fauna they are among the more common Plectophloeus species with records from many Federal States. They are not regarded as endangered. (CB)
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