Tenebroides corticalis (Melsheimer, 1844)

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.15027999

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/935A4D53-7073-5467-9A5D-F590763F81D4

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Tenebroides corticalis (Melsheimer, 1844)
status

 

Tenebroides corticalis (Melsheimer, 1844)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: nine individuals from eight sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

North and Central America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults and larvae occur within a wide variety of tree species, decomposition stages, and sizes of deadwood, where they are predators of woodboring insects and bark beetles ( Blackman and Stage 1924; Hoffmann 1942; Barron 1971); associated with logs and lower boles of dead trees ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Trogossitidae

Genus

Tenebroides