Bathyplectes infernalis (Gravenhorst, 1820)

Bathyplectes infernalis (Gravenhorst, 1820) View in CoL

Notes

It is not entirely clear from the paper what the authors mean by ‘ adults that emerge in the fall are capable of surviving the winter, more specifically in cracks and crevices in the soil and secluded places at the bases of the host plant’. This species is Holarctic and shows high degrees of synchronicity with its plurivoltine host, the beetle Brachypera zoilus (J. A. Scopoli, 1763) . There are some records in the United States, early in the year, but it is unclear if these specimens were hibernating. Any data from the Western Palaearctic region are missing.

Status: Unverified.

Sources: Pottler and Coles (1962) [ Biolysia tristis Grav. ].