Phyllobaenus verticalis (Say, 1835)

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.15027432

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8D85C503-6EFC-53E3-B2B3-D4B5336DF30B

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Phyllobaenus verticalis (Say, 1835)
status

 

Phyllobaenus verticalis (Say, 1835)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 65 individuals from 24 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 30 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Develops within and prey upon woodboring beetles in dead hardwoods ( Knull 1932; Mawdsley 2002); larvae additionally occur within woodier stem galls of cynipid wasps on oak, although food sources in this microhabitat are uncertain (e. g., Eliason and Potter 2000).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Phyllobaenus