Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer, 1913

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.15027734

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/52DED73E-8F59-515B-B13C-3043F22B5CED

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer, 1913
status

 

Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer, 1913

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: three individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 9–25 March 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Occur under the bark of deciduous trees where it is a predator and likely fungivore ( Bousquet 1990); found in association with bark beetles ( McElrath and McHugh 2018).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with young forests (regrown since 1938 and pine dominated) in highly forested landscapes (> 50 % forest) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2023 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Monotomidae

Genus

Rhizophagus