Neopyrochroa femoralis (LeConte, 1855)

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.15027859

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D54BF04A-789C-53C9-813E-0B9DCADFFCD5

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scientific name

Neopyrochroa femoralis (LeConte, 1855)
status

 

Neopyrochroa femoralis (LeConte, 1855)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop under bark and in decayed wood of standing dead trees ( Young 2002 b).

Conservation.

Rare in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, possibly due to the history of intensive forest management in the region altering forest composition and structure ( Majka 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Pyrochroidae

Genus

Neopyrochroa