Abstract
During ecological investigations on saproxylic beetle communities of central Italy (Latium), at Bosco Polverino (a mixed evergreen/deciduous forest fragment dominated by cork oaks), and at Allumiere (a small fragment of beech forest surrounded by turkey oak stands), the authors found three specimens of <em>Pityophagus</em> <em>quercus</em> Reitter, 1877 (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae). These are the first known records of this species in Italy, and the first one in association with an evergreen oak, <em>Quercus</em> <em>suber</em>. This discovery led us to review both bionomical and faunistic data so far available on this exceedingly rare and poorly known species.
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