Habrocerus capillaricornis
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Habrocerus
Habrocerus capillaricornis

description: H. capillaricornis (GRAVENHORST)   
 Additional material examined:   
 Tunisia: 4 exs., ca. 30 km E Siliana, Bou Saadia, 36°02'N, 09°38'E, 550 m, N-slope with macchia, litter and grass sifted, 25.XII.2004, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., ca. 2 km S Aïn Draham, 36°44'N, 08°41'E, 670 m, oak forest, litter sifted, 28.XII.2004, leg. Assing (cAss).   
 Morocco: 4 exs., Beni Snassen Mts., 10 km S Berklane, Zegzel, 34°50'N, 2°22'W, 400 m, arable land, 30.XII.2001, leg. Bayer (cSch, cAss); 1 ex., Haut Atlas, 40 km SSE Marrakech, Arhbalou, 31°19'N, 07°45'W, 1030 m, edge of stream, 28.XII.2002, leg. Assing (cAss).   
 Spain: mainland: 1 ex., País Vasco, 60 km SE Bilbao, Sierra de Urquilla, SE Arantzazu, 42°58'N, 02°23'W, 860 m, beech forest, 10.VII.2003, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Vera de Bidasoa, Col d'Ibardin, 200 m, 19.V.1990, leg. Hartmann (DEI); 1 ex., Galicia, Sierra de Ancares, ENE Degrada, 42°50'N, 6°54'W, 970 m, mixed deciduous forest with very old Castanea sativa, 14.VII.2004, leg. Assing (cAss); 2 exs., Galicia, Sierra do Courel, Rio de Rofión, 23.V.2000, leg. Valcárcel (cSch); 1 ex., Girona, 7 km S Vidreres, 41°43'N, 2°51'E, 150 m, oak wood with Ilex, 10.X.1997, leg. Zerche; 1 ex., Andalucía, Cerro de la Novia, barranco at km 6 of A-375, 36°37'N, 5°30'W, ca. 700 m, collected together with H. ibericus, 19.II.2000, leg. Lompe (cAss).   
 Canary Islands: Gran Canaria: 1 ex., Gran Canaria, S El Cortijo, S Fontanales, 28°03'N, 15°37'W, 1120 m, 31.I.1998, leg. Zerche (DEI); 1 ex., Bco. Oscuro, 12.VI.1984, leg. Machado (cMac). La Gomera: 103 exs., NE Arure, Araña, 1000-1100 m, moist litter in laurisilva, 24.XII.1998, leg. Assing (cAss); 6 exs., 4 km NE Arure, S Zarza, 1000 m, laurisilva, 25.XII.1998, leg. Assing (cAss). La Palma: 5 exs., Tagoja, 3.II.1994, leg. García (cGar, cAss); 2 exs., Bco. del Carmen, 5.I.1982, leg. García (cGar); 1 ex., Tagoja, 24.III.1990, leg. Machado (cMac).   
 Portugal: 1 ex., Algarve, Serra de Monchique, NW Picota, 22.II.1999, leg. Meybohm (cAss).   
 France: 1 , Haute-Corse, Fontane de Padula, 3 km W Vezzani, 42°11'N, 9°13'E, 900 m, moss, 29.VII.1998, leg. Zerche & Ruch (DEI); 1 , Haute-Corse, Castagniccia, San Nicolao, 11.V.2001, leg. Wolf (cSch).   
 Italy: 1 , Sardegna, Cagliari, Torredelle, 13.-18.VII.1998, leg. Menzel (DEI); 1 ex., Sicilia, 40 km W Siracusa, NE Buccheri, 37°08'N, 14°53'E, 580 m, oak forest, sifted, 23.XII.2007, leg. Assing (cAss).   
 Malta: 2 , Wied il-Luq, 15.IV. & 1.V.1990, leg. Mifsud (cMif); 1 , Buskett Gardens, 30.XII.1994, leg. Zerche (DEI).   
 Slovakia: 4 exs., E Banovice, E Ostrý Vrach peak, 48°44'N, 18°22'E, 520 m, fagetum, 3.VIII.2001, leg. Zerche (DEI).   
 Hungary: 5 exs., SW Aggtelek, 2 km E Imola, 48°25'N, 20°35'E, 300 m, oakwood, 31.VII.2001, leg. Zerche (DEI, cAss).   
 Slovenia: 5 exs., Žiče, Sotensko, 23.IV.1998, leg. Drovenik (cDro, cAss); 1 ex., Police, Gor. Radgona, 28.III.1998, leg. Drovenik (cDro); 2 ex., Podorad, Mura, G. Radgona, 17.IV.1996, leg. Drovenik (cDro, cAss); 1 ex., Kamnik, Volčji potok, 6.IV.1996, leg. Drovenik (cDro); 1 ex., Zasip, Sava, 12.IV.1996, leg. Drovenik (cDro); 2 exs., Kocevje, Kocevski Rog, Globocica near Podturn, 500 m, doline, 7.VII.1996, leg. Zerche (DEI).   
 Croatia: 8 exs., Plitvice, Supljara doline, 510 m, 15.VII.1996, leg. Zerche (DEI).   
 Romania: 1 ex., Neauesti, 25 km SE Piatra Neamt., 500 m, 18.VI.1996, leg. Prudek (cSch).   
 Bulgaria: 1 ex., Stara Planina, Aprilzi, N Monastery, 42°51'N, 24°55'E, 480 m, Carpinus-Ulmus forest, 26.V.2000, leg. Zerche & Behne (DEI).   
 Greece: 5 exs., Thessalia, NE Ossa Oros, W Stómio, ca. 20 m, flood plain forest, 5.IV.1998, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Katara pass, 1500 m, 13.V.1997, leg. Wolf (cSch); 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, 20 km S Tripoli, Vlachokerasia, 27.IV.1999, leg. Wolf (cSch).   
 Turkey: 3 exs., Antalya, between Antalya and Alanya, Incekum, 16.IV.-2.V.1984, leg. Brachat (cSch).   
 Azerbaijan: 2 exs., Astara, Istisu W Astara, 100 m, 2.-6.VI.1996, leg. Schawaller (SMNS, cAss).   
 South Africa: 1 , Cape Province: Wilderness NP, 33°59'S, 22°38'E, car-net, 13.-14.XI.1997, leg. Uhlig (MNHUB).   
The species is most likely of Western Palaearctic origin, but has an almost cosmopolitan distribution today. Outside the Palaearctic region, it has been introduced in the Australian region (New Zealand), as well as in South America (Colombia) and North America (ASSING & WUNDERLE 1995); recently it was also reported from South Africa for the first time (NEWTON 2006).  
 For additional records from La Palma, Canary Islands, where the species is very common in various biotopes, see ASSING & WUNDERLE (1999). The species is apparently absent from El Hierro, where it was not found in spite of extensive field work in December and January 1999 /2000. The records by FRANZ (1996), according to whom H. capillaricornis is quite common in the island, refer to H. canariensis; the corresponding material from the Franz collection was examined (see section on H. canariensis).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2008, A revision of the Habrocerinae of the world. IV. A new species of Habrocerus from China and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 135-144 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (1) on pages 136-137, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.1.135-144, http://zenodo.org/record/4779335