Wouter Dekoninck, Léon Baert, Luc Crevecoeur, Alain Drumont, Kjel Dupont, David Ignace, Pol Limbourg, Hugo Raemdonck, Willy Troukens, Marc Van Kerckvoorde, Lut Van Nieuwenhuyse, and Pieter Vanormelingen (2024)
Recent Belgian records of the hornet rove-beetle Quedius (Velleius) dilatatus (Fabricius, 1787) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Bulletin de la Société royale belge d'Entomologie / Bulletin van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Entomologie, 160:200-217.
We report recent records of the rove beetle Quedius dilatatus (Fabricius, 1787) in Belgium. This
beetle lives in nests of the European hornet Vespa crabro L., 1758 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
and possibly profits of the recent expansion of its host. However, it seems its recent distribution
is also linked to the use of recently more often used trap types, baited with an ethanol, water,
glycerol and acetic acid mixture, or baited with red wine with ethanol or even white or red wine
vinegar, mimicking the smell of freshly decaying wood. These methods of trapping are discussed
in this paper.
RBINS Publication(s), Peer Review, PDF available, RBINS Collection(s)
European hornet, cavity species, species in expansion, interception traps, Scheerpeltz, mixture
- ISSN: 1374-8297
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