Platysoma leconti Marseul, 1853

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.15027649

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C0C48BFB-1283-5E09-98E4-29C7264F130E

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Platysoma leconti Marseul, 1853
status

 

Platysoma leconti Marseul, 1853 View in CoL

Collection information.

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

Distribution.

North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under bark of hardwood trees ( Downie and Arnett 1996; Webster et al. 2012 b); emerged from loblolly pine, water oak, and especially sweetgum ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a), as well as hardwood twigs ( Ferro and Nguyen 2016) and the non-native mimosa ( Albizia julibrissin (Durazz.) ( Fabaceae )) ( Ulyshen et al. 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

Genus

Platysoma