Male specimen, with a length of 4 mm. Altitude of the capture, about 600 m.
Unfortunately, the horns that the males have on their foreheads are very small, they are not shown in the photo.
A species of SE Europe, which I have encountered in a total of 3 localities in Greece, distant from each other (NW, SW and central-East Greece).
Always in mushrooms of the trunks of deciduous Quercus.
This specific individual, is one of those sent to W. Schawaller and led to the revocation of the synonymisation with Eledona agricola.
[SCHAWALLER, W. 2002. Evidence of two species of Eledona Latreille, and Eledonoprius Reitter in Europe (Coleoptera,
Tenebrionidae). Entomologic Blätter, 98 (1): 111-114. ].
Footnote for our friend Georgi (Joro):
I met this species also at the only time that I was in Bulgaria (early July 2004), in the SE (near the village Grammatikovo). A new species for Bulgaria, known from the Lobl - Smetana catalogus only from Greece and European Turkey.
George
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