Enicmus aterrimus Motschulsky, 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.15027679

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/34210F9A-9E8B-5402-9F1C-78EA90A947C6

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scientific name

Enicmus aterrimus Motschulsky, 1866
status

 

Enicmus aterrimus Motschulsky, 1866

Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record): Clarke Co.: 35 individuals from 19 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults and larvae of most Enicmus Thomson, 1859 feed on slime molds ( Myxomycetes) ( Andrews 2002), but it is unclear whether this is true for E. Aterrimus ( Lawrence and Newton 1980).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Latridiidae

Genus

Enicmus