Enoclerus nigripes (Say, 1823)

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.15027418

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/49723F3D-4343-56C8-94B3-CF51B95D3685

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scientific name

Enoclerus nigripes (Say, 1823)
status

 

Enoclerus nigripes (Say, 1823)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 10 individuals from nine sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 19 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern and Central North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults prey uopn bark and woodboring beetles and occur under bark and on logs infested with prey, including oak, hickory, cedar, spruce ( Picea A. Dietr. ( Pinaceae )), and especially pine ( Knull 1951; Majka 2006; Dorshorst and Young 2008).

Conservation.

Occurrence probability increases with the amount of landscape forest cover in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2024).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Enoclerus