Ahermodontus bischoffi-rediscovery of an endemic dung beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) in Albania after more than 80 years
2018
Abstract
During recent entomological collecting trips to Albania, Czech coleopterist Martin Šlachta collected one male specimen of A. bischoffi in Llogara Pass in May 2015. In 2016, two independent trips to the same locality by the Czech Kamil Orszulik (May 2016) and by Polish entomologists Adam Byk, Tomasz Gazurek, and Sebastian Tylkowski (May- June 2016) were much more fruitful and resulted to more than 100 collected specimens of both sexes.
Examination of these specimens allowed us to describe male of this species for the first time and to briefly discuss their bionomy.