Tritoma atriventris LeConte, 1847

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.15027588

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A7D83435-E97D-5D95-8038-21ECA7374A4F

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Tritoma atriventris LeConte, 1847
status

 

Tritoma atriventris LeConte, 1847

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap and sifted from leaf litter from 2 June – 31 August 2020.

Distribution.

Southeastern and south-central United States ( Goodrich and Springer 1999).

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop in a variety of fungi growing on dead and dying wood, including Desarmillaria tabescens (Scop.) R. A. Koch and Aime ( Physalacriaceae ), Lentinus arcularius (Batsch) Zmitr. ( Polyporaceae ), Omphalotus illudens (Schwein.) Bresinsky and Besl ( Omphalotaceae ), and Pluteus Fr. (Plutaceae), and adults occur on numerous other fungi ( Skelley et al. 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Tritoma