Phyllobaenus unifasciatus (Say, 1825)

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.15027428

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/286EDF5E-735A-5A28-B004-E76B526FA426

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Phyllobaenus unifasciatus (Say, 1825)
status

 

Phyllobaenus unifasciatus (Say, 1825)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 6–19 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults and larvae are predaceous on bark and woodboring beetles and occur under bark and in prey galleries primarily in hardwood trees (Böving and Champain 1920; Knull 1951; Dolphin et al. 1972; Mawdsley 2002); larvae additionally occur within woodier stem galls of cynipid wasps on oak, although food sources in this microhabitat are uncertain (e. g., Eliason and Potter 2000).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Phyllobaenus