Sphindus americanus LeConte, 1866

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.15027889
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/321DAB70-41BC-51F0-9F9E-35B4E098E757
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scientific name	Sphindus americanus LeConte, 1866
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Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record): Clarke Co.: 15 individuals from 11 sites. Caught in flight trap and sifted from leaf litter from 25 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

North America.

Saproxylic habits.

All life stages are dependent on slime molds growing on dead wood ( Lawrence and Newton 1980; Stephenson et al. 1994; Majka 2010).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Sphindidae
Genus	Sphindus

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