Germarostes aphodioides (Illiger, 1800)

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.15027656

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B9DD03C1-07E9-50A9-A64E-0C7C9610F393

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Germarostes aphodioides (Illiger, 1800)
status

 

Germarostes aphodioides (Illiger, 1800) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: three individuals from three sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States, south to Central America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under bark of dead oaks ( Robinson 1918), and in dying, fungus covered trees, such as tulip tree ( Evans 2009); emerged from water oak and sweetgum typically at higher strata in the canopy but also associated with water oak and snags ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hybosoridae

Genus

Germarostes