Three new species of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) associated with dead wood from the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

: The paper includes three deadwood-associated coleopterans species - Dirrhagofarsus attenuatus (Mäklin, 1845), Enicmus rugosus (Herbst, 1793) and Rhopalocerus rondanii (Villa & Villa, 1833) new records for the fauna of the Republic of Moldova. The specimens were collected from P ăd urea Domneasc ă Reserve, using the entomological aspirator, flotation method and the trunk trap. The present finding raised the number of identified species in the Republic of Moldova to nine for the family Latridiidae, to three for the family Eucnemidae and to six for family Zopheridae.