Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29-30/2. (2010)

Zoology

New data about (Coleoptern: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) from the continental zone of Do broken

contains lots of south elements: Balkan and Mediterranean. In glades and on rocky from the Ceairului valley area, Balkan shrubs are growing, like Cotinus coggyria.

The list of coleopteras from Cetoniinae subfamily reported in Continental Dobrogea:

Cetonia aurata (Linné, 1761)

Material: Mäcinului mountain — 87 ex. from this, 79 are common. Four presents dorsal part with: head, pronotum and scutelium violet, green shardes and the ventral part colored in dark green - ab. tunicata (Fig. 4a). One with green dorsal. Three with purplish bronze dorsal, ab. amasicola (Fig. 4b). More exemplars from ab. tunicata had been found on flowers of Crataegus sp. and Sambucus sp. (Fig. 4,c) on Chetrosul Mic top.

Bujoarelor hill forest — 33 exemplars. 30 are common, 3 ab. tunicata, with the color of the abdomen green-olive.

Esechioi forest - 7 exemplars, common, typical form.

Mentions in the literature: Canaraua Fetei, ab. tunicata [4].

General distribution: European. Ecological status: Common.

Potosia (Cetonischema) aeruginosa (Drury, 1770),

Material: Mäcinului mountain - 5 ex. Bujoarelor hill forest — 6 ex. Esechioi forest - 1 ex.

Total collected exemplars: 12. Observations: common aspect, in general. At the exemplar from Esechioi the dorsal is light red, ab. aureocuprea (Fig. 5). All exemplars had been collected in traps. Mentions in the literature: Dobrogea [3].

General distribution: Occidental and Central Europe. Ecological status: Local common.

Potosia (Eupotosia) affinis (Andersch, 1797)

Material: Mäcinului mountain - is missing from our collecting. Bujoarelor hill forest — 4 ex, typical spect. Esechioi forest — 13 ex. At some exemplars the dorsal color is green with light brown irizations. Ventral color green with blue irizations.

Mentions in the literature: Mäcin [1].

General distribution: Mediterranean. Ecological status: Local common.

Potosia cuprea cuprina (Motschulski, 1849)

Material: Mäcinului mountain — 7 ex. Amber red color on dorsal part, oily sheen, ventral — purplish blue. Typical aspect (Fig. 6a). Bujoarelor hill forest — 29 ex. From this, 27 amber red color on dorsal part, with green irizations. Ventral, purplish blue. Typical aspect. Two of the exemplars present green irizations on the ventral part, including the legs.

Esechioi forest - 30 ex. 17 exemplars green on dorsal part (Fig. 6b), purplish blue on ventral part. 13 exemplars amber red on dorsal part, some of them dark cooper colored (Fig. 6c), others light cooper (Fig. 6d). Between them, 6 with green irizations on abdomen. At this lot can be observed the biggest color variations, and in terms of the pear designed white spots, they are situated on dorsal part of body — pronotum, elitras, pigidium.

More exemplars had been found in the glades of forests, on Carduus sp. inflorescences and in the pasture from forest neighborhood.

Mentions in the literature: Esechioi and Bas-Punar [4].

General distribution: Oriental Europe, Minor Asia, Middle East. Ecological status: Common.

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