THE FEEDING TYPE AND ADDITIONAL DATA ON THE DISTRIBUTIONOF CONALIA BAUDII MULSANT ET REY, 1858 (COLEOPTERA: MORDELLIDAE)
Keywords:
tumbling flower beetles; adults; larvae; feeding type; feeding mechanisms; fungi; mouthpartsAbstract
A new habitat of Conalia baudii Mulsant et Rey, 1858 has been discovered on the territory of Belarus (Baranovichi district, Brest region). It is established that the adults of C. baudii are mycetophagous. Adults feed on the hymenium
with spores of different fungi. Their mouthparts are largely adapted for feeding on this food substrate, first of all due to morphological features of their mandibles and maxillae. It can be suggested that adults actively separate
parts of the food substrate collecting them by short and stiff hairs located on the inner margin of galea and lacinia. Unlike Tomoxia bucephala Costa, 1854, adults of C. baudii do not purposefully feed on conidia of hyphomycetes. It is confirmed by the gut contents of the studied specimens and by the structure of their mouthparts.
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