Platysoma aequum (LeConte, 1863)

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.15027645

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4C006079-B46E-5294-98F1-20758911AA39

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Platysoma aequum (LeConte, 1863)
status

 

Platysoma aequum (LeConte, 1863) View in CoL

Collection information.

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

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Unknown; likely prey upon dipteran larvae under bark of dead trees as do similarly shaped species of Platysoma Leach, 1817 ( Kovarik and Caterino 2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

Genus

Platysoma