Platydema ellipticum (Fabricius, 1798)

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.15027929

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0F6AB93E-3FDB-5C4E-A5E1-A9B0EA1433A3

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Platydema ellipticum (Fabricius, 1798)
status

 

Platydema ellipticum (Fabricius, 1798)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop within the shelf fungus F. Gilva ( Weiss 1919).

Conservation.

Occurrence apparently stable from 1900 – present on Plummers Island, Maryland, despite losses of other species possibly due to changing forest conditions ( Steiner 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

Genus

Platydema