Tenebroides bimaculatus (Melsheimer, 1844)

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D., Cornish, J. Winston, Tigreros, Gabriel & McHugh, Joseph V., 2025, Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7F3DF85-80E1-41FB-8DB4-25E9460FCC9F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027995

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0550B412-5400-5C8E-A383-A4B6647222BC

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scientific name

Tenebroides bimaculatus (Melsheimer, 1844)
status

 

Tenebroides bimaculatus (Melsheimer, 1844)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: six individuals from four sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae are predators of woodboring larvae ( Champlain and Knull 1923); emerged from water oak ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a); adults and larvae also occur under bark, including oak and elm ( Hoffmann 1942; Barron 1971).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Trogossitidae

Genus

Tenebroides