Cophes obtentus (Herbst, 1797)

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.15027459

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DBE20301-E7DC-553A-B974-CF2BBE9244FD

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Cophes obtentus (Herbst, 1797)
status

 

Cophes obtentus (Herbst, 1797) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 11 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America into Central America, west to Arizona.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from hardwood twigs ( Ferro et al. 2012 a; Ferro and Nguyen 2016); adults occur under bark and in hollow trees ( Ciegler 2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Cophes