Valgus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1789)

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.15027867

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/68B3B83A-ED6B-5311-A0D8-CB93BD64784A

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scientific name

Valgus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1789)
status

 

Valgus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1789) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 480 individuals from 37 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 27 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Associated with subterranean termites ( Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar, 1837) ( Blattodea : Rhinotermitidae )), and larvae develop by feeding on the walls of the termite galleries ( Ritcher 1958); adults occur under bark of standing dead trees, such as mockernut hickory ( Carya tomentosa Nutt. ) and pine ( Howden and Vogt 1951; Steury and Paulsen 2022).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Valgus