Xyleborus pfeilii (Ratzeburg, 1837)

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.15027516

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E6702CA5-0178-5B57-AF47-80B598922F8A

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Xyleborus pfeilii (Ratzeburg, 1837)
status

 

Xyleborus pfeilii (Ratzeburg, 1837)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record): Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 30 June – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Introduced across the world, adventive in North America ( Gomez et al. 2018).

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae are ambrosial feeders and polyphagous in tree-hosts ( Wood 1982; Wood and Bright 1992).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Xyleborus