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Beetles (Coleoptera) Associated with Xylotrophic Fungi of the Genus Trametes Fr. (Basidiomycetes, Polyporales) in the South Urals

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Research in the South Urals has revealed 39 species of beetles from 25 genera and 13 families associated with 6 species of wood-destroying basidium fungi of the genus Trametes Fr.: T. gibbosa, T. hirsuta, T. ochracea, T. pubescens, T. suaveolens, and T. versicolor. The dominant inhabitants of these fungi are Octothemnus glabriculus, Sulcacis nitidus, Cis hispidus, C. setiger, C. boleti (Ciidae), Tritoma subbasalis (Erotylidae), and Orchesia fusiformis (Melandryidae). Patterns of colonization of the fungal fruit bodies depending on their physiological state and degree of destruction are described. Significant differences are observed in the composition of the beetle complexes inhabiting living and dead basidiomes. Such beetle species as Cerylon deplanatum, C. ferrugineum, C. histeroides (Cerylonidae), Rhizophagus dispar, Rh. parvulus (Monotomidae), Cucujus haematodes (Cucujidae), Bitoma crenata (Colydiidae), Dircaea quadriguttata, and Orchesia fasciata (Melandryidae) develop under the bark of trees, in white rot of wood, and in the mycelial layer of Trametes fungi in trophic association with these fungi and other fungal species, including ascomycetes and deuteromycetes.

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I am grateful to P.V. Lukyanov, V.I. Istomin, D.A. Yasko, A.V. Gusev, M.V. Balashov, B.V. Beneshev, R.R. Zagirov, V.G. Sergeev, N.I. Koltakov, S.P. Kovalenko, S.V. Gagara, A.N. Lavrov, A.N. Luginin, D.V. Akhremov, A.N. Burov, S.V. Samarin, I.P. Khudyakov, B.Yu. Sarattsev, V.P. Zaritsky, O.P. Malykh, and A.V. Zaikin (Regional State Institution “Specially Protected Natural Territories of Chelyabinsk Province”) for their help in organizing field research. Special thanks are due to S.P. Arefiev (Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and V.A. Mukhin (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) for help with identification of some fungi, N.B. Nikitsky (Zoological Museum of Moscow State University) and B.G. Kaplin (All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection) for persistent attention to my research and valuable advice.

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Translated from Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2021, Vol. 100, No. 7, pp. 756–769 https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044513421070060.

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Krasutsky, B.V. Beetles (Coleoptera) Associated with Xylotrophic Fungi of the Genus Trametes Fr. (Basidiomycetes, Polyporales) in the South Urals. Entmol. Rev. 101, 450–464 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873821040023

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