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Article

Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales

by
Calogero Muscarella
1,
Luca Luiselli
2,3,4,*,
Massimiliano Di Vittorio
5,
Ignazio Sparacio
6 and
Daniele Dendi
2,3,4
1
Cooperativa Silene a.r.l., Via D’Ondes Reggio, 8A Scala G, 90127 Palermo, Italy
2
Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, Via G. Tomasi di Lampedusa 33, 00144 Rome, Italy
3
Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt P.M.B. 5080, Nigeria
4
Department of Zoology, University of Lomé, Lomé 01 BP 1515, Togo
5
Ecologia Applicata Italia S.R.L., Via Jevolella, 2, Termini Imerese, 90018 Palermo, Italy
6
Via Principe di Paternò 3, 90144 Palermo, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Diversity 2022, 14(5), 397; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050397
Submission received: 4 April 2022 / Revised: 3 May 2022 / Accepted: 12 May 2022 / Published: 17 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diversity in 2022)
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Abstract

Anoxia (Protanoxia) orientalis is a beetle of the family Melolonthidae for which Italy represents the western limit of its distribution. The ecology of this species is little known from the quantitative point of view. The ecological correlates of A. orientalis presence in the whole European range and, more specifically, at its western border in Sicily, are analyzed in this paper to develop a potential distribution map for Sicily and to define the habitat selection of this species. There was a clear non-random habitat selection by A. orientalis at both the European and the Sicilian scales and a clear difference in the factors affecting the presence of this species in the larger spatial scale compared to Sicily. At the European scale, the bioclimatic factors were more important than landscape factors, whereas the same was not true at the Sicilian scale. In Sicily, the populations were statistically influenced by a combination of predictors that make their potential optimal distribution very narrow and mostly limited to a few coastal areas, suggesting a region-specific ecological diversification. Since A. orientalis is in strong decline in Italy due to the degradation of coastal environments, it is necessary to minimize the degradation of the dune and back dune environments in Sicily to achieve better management for the populations of this beetle species.
Keywords: scarabaeidae; melolonthini; Europe; Sicily; ecological modelling; distribution scarabaeidae; melolonthini; Europe; Sicily; ecological modelling; distribution

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Muscarella, C.; Luiselli, L.; Di Vittorio, M.; Sparacio, I.; Dendi, D. Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales. Diversity 2022, 14, 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050397

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Muscarella C, Luiselli L, Di Vittorio M, Sparacio I, Dendi D. Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales. Diversity. 2022; 14(5):397. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050397

Chicago/Turabian Style

Muscarella, Calogero, Luca Luiselli, Massimiliano Di Vittorio, Ignazio Sparacio, and Daniele Dendi. 2022. "Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales" Diversity 14, no. 5: 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050397

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Muscarella, C., Luiselli, L., Di Vittorio, M., Sparacio, I., & Dendi, D. (2022). Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales. Diversity, 14(5), 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050397

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