Adrian Ruicanescu

Institute of Biological Research Cluj-Napoca branch of National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences

Milesia crabroniformis was recorded for the first time in Romania, in Iron Gates Natural Park, in Iuți, Vodița, and Ilovița valleys. In the first case, the species was identified on the edge of a dirt road parallel to a small watercourse in a region covered with mostly oak forests and rocky areas. We captured an individual on the flowering vegetati...

Here we report a new population of Capnodis cariosa from the South-Western Romania, at the border with the Republic of Serbia (Danube’s Defile). The presence of this species was reported in the past from Southern Dobroudja (South-Eastern Romania, near the Bulgarian border), this being its only, yet nowadays probably extinct, local Romanian populati...

The first specimen of Dicerca furcata has been found and collected in a birch rare forest in the Harghita county area. This specimen is the first one found after the year 2000. A short description, and a comparison with the close looking species D. alni are given. The paper is supplemented with information on the biology, ecology and distribution.

The Order Coleoptera is, within the animal kingdom, one of the species-richest group, with approximate 400,000 species on the Earth, more exactly 386,755 described species (Bouchard et al., 2017) - in comparison with all described species of birds (8,600 species), or of all described species of mammals (5,000 species). The beetle fauna is not...

A new alien hornet species ( Vespa orientalis ) has been observed in the Northern part of Bucharest, Romania, and reported through to the social networking platform for naturalists and citizen scientists, iNaturalist. All records were taken in Bucharest during 2019 and 2020.

Here we report a new population of Capnodis cariosa from the SouthWestern Romania, at the border with Republic of Serbia (Danube's Defile). The presence of this species in Romania was reported from Southern Dobroudja (South-Eastern Romania, near the Bulgarian border), this being its only, yet nowadays extinct population. In our citizen science-base...

Kisanthobia ariasi is recorded in Romania for the first time. The species is illustrated, redescribed and short considerations about its biology, ecology and distribution are discussed.

Morphological and molecular data indicate that two valid species exist in Europe within the two species complex, Onthophagus vacca and O. medius. The aim of our study is to check specimens from major museum collections and some personal collections from the country and to assign them to O. medius or O. vacca. We have examined 417 specimens belongin...

The Cypress Jewel Beetle (Lamprodila (Palmar) festiva subsp. festiva (Linnaeus 1767)), is a formerly rare and protected species, present in the red lists of most Western European countries. In Romania, before 2015 it was present only in the South-Western region and less than 10 specimens were collected. The species recently changed its host plants...

One specimen of Anthaxia (Anthaxia) suzannae Théry, 1942 was collected on a meadow, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Although this species is widely distributed in Europe, this is the first record of its presence in Romania. A short description of the species, and some considerations about the biology and zoogeography are given.

Agrilus guerini Lacordaire is recorded for the first time in Romania, in Southern Transylvania. The occurrence of this species in Romania was expected, as it is present in neighbouring countries. A short description, some aspects of biology and ecology, and a distribution map of this species in Romania are given.

The CJB is actually a holomediterranean species, known in Romania only from 2 locations in the South-Western country. In 2016 it was published a massive occurence in 2 arbovitae cultivars near Bucharest (Nitzu & collab.). Our expectations to find CJB in Cluj-Napoca were rather low, because of the usually cold and humid weather. But surprisingly, ad...

Although Pilemia tigrina is a species of conservation concern, its biology, ecology and distribution in Romania are still poorly known. The data we are adding here contribute to complete the knowledge in the above-mentioned aspects. This is also the first time in 105 years (last known in 1912) that the authors recorded many new occurrences of this...

Antaxia scorzonerae (Frivaldszky, 1838) is a new record in Romanian fauna. A diagnose of the Cratomerus subgenus and an identification key of the Romanian species of Antaxia which belong to this subgenus are presented. A distribution map of this species is also given.

This volume is dealing with the family Buprestidae, an important family of Coleoptera, that contents four subfamilies, 14 tribes, 26 genera and 137 species that has been treated in phylogenetic order. Eight species are recorded for the rst time in the Romanian fauna by the author and two by outboards authors in the last 13 years, one of them Anthax...

Antaxia scorzonerae (Frivaldszky, 1838) is a new record in Romanian fauna. A diagnose of the Cratomerus subgenus and an identification key of the Romanian species of Antaxia which belong to this subgenus are presented. A distribution map of this species is also given.

This book is the first Buprestidae catalogue in Romania and includes all data recorded until now. The contents of this catalogue is based on information collected for about 20 years and on all published data. Every one of the 150 species treated in the catalogue is accompanied by its higher classification, synonyms, biology and ecology (including p...

In this work, all known data about history of the publications in Romanian Buprestidae, faun-sitic, ecological, biological and bionomical, as well as some conclusions and recommendations are briefly given. Brief History of publications Before 1940, all these studies was non spe-cific, only inventoried species in Coleopteran checklists. seidlitz (18...

The first specimen was found in Băile Herculane (Hercules Bath) area (07.15.1952) by N. Săvulescu and published by Serafim & Ruicănescu (1995) as a new species from the Romanian fauna. No other specimen was known.

Osmoderma eremita (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) en Europa.¿ La investigación, el control y el desarrollo de estrategias de conservación de especies amenazadas en peligro de extinción están habitualmente confinadas por fronteras nacionales aunque sería más apropiado una perspectiva más global. En este trabajo se recogen datos sobre la prese...

We are 28 co-authors representing 25 European countries, who have collected data on a threatened beetle associated with tree hollows. Osmoderma eremita (SCOPOLI, 1763) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). This project has arisen from our own initiative, based on the belief that entomology and nature conservation would do better with stronger co-operation be...

Research, monitoring and development of preservation strategies for threatened species are often limited by national borders even though a global perspective would be more appropriate. In this study, we collected data on the occurrence of a threatened beetle, Osmoderma eremita, associated with tree hollows in 2,142 localities from 33 countries in E...

Research, monitoring and development of preservation strategies for threatened species are often limited by national borders even though a global perspective would be more appropriate. In this study, we collected data on the occurrence of a threatened beetle, Osmoderma eremita, associated with tree hollows in 2,142 localities from 33 countries in E...

Anthaxia (s.str.) hypomelaena (Illiger, 1803) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) a certain presence in the Romanian fauna Adrian Ruicănescu Abstract Anthaxia (s.str.) hypomelaena (Illiger, 1803) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) was not mentioned in the literature to occurs in the Romanian fauna, except in a single publication (Bílý 2003). After asking S. Bílý, he...

The palynological analysis of a subboreal sequence at "Arpaşul de Sus" (Sibiu district). The so-called "Lacul or Mlaca Tătarilor" peat bog lies at 520 m altitude, at 3-4 km south-east from the Arpaşul de Sus village, Sibiu district, on the foot of the Făgăraş Mountains. It's surface covers about 3.5 ha and it was mentioned by Pop in his monography...

Dicerca (s. str.) furcata (Thunberg, 1787) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) -a certain presence in the Romanian fauna Adrian RUICĂNESCU Dicerca (s. str.) furcata (Thunberg, 1787) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) – o prezenţă sigură în fauna României Rezumat O nouă specie de buprestid a fost semnalată în fauna României. Prezenţa acestei specii a fost estimată pe...

Because of many kinds of zoogeographical classification and characterization of European entomofauna described in the literature, we attempt here to propose a new way of classification. We hope the proposed classification will be much easier to apply, more accurate and complete and quantifiable and consequently will be accepted by more specialists....

In Romania it not exists yet coleopteran collection catalogues published after 1925 (PETRI 1925). The most important catalogues are: FLECK (1904-1906), PETRI (1912 and 1925)*, SERAFIM & RUICĂNESCU (1995). That’s why, the authors continue to publish the buprestid collections lists with Natural History Museum of Sibiu collections. In this work the bu...

Two buprestid species has been misrecorded in the Romanian fauna from Petri (1912) and Fleck (1905) and has been overtaken in the Obenberger's and other catalogues. These species are: Acmaeodera cylindrica (Fabricius 1775) and Acmaeoderella gibbulosa (Reitter 1890).

According to records and reviews of the taxa of N. Săvulescu’s Buprestoidea collection we found out the presence of six new species to the Romanian fauna: Sphenoptera (Chilostetha) substriata, S. (C.) petriceki, Dicerca (Argante) moesta, Palmar festiva, Anthaxia (s.str.) midas and Chrysobothris leonhardi. The species Anthaxia kiessenwetteri, Anthax...

Buprestoidea (Coleoptera) species list from the collection Nicolae SăvuleScu stored in the Museum of natural History “Grigore Antipa”, Bucharest, Romania After ananlyzing the Buprestoidea collection of Dr. N. Săvulescu, it contains a number of 4.633 specimens which belong to 81 species and 23 genera.