Thymalus marginicollis Chevrolat, 1842

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.15028015

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E8A0A1D1-05E5-5885-9231-537742282EAE

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Thymalus marginicollis Chevrolat, 1842
status

 

Thymalus marginicollis Chevrolat, 1842

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: three individuals from three sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 19 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, transcontinental in Canada.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop within polypore fungi (e. g., the birch polypore ( Fomitopsis betulina (Bull.) B. K. Cui, M. L. Han and Y. C. Dai ( Fomitopsidaceae )), and adults occur in association with it as well ( Brues 1927; Minch 1952); adults also occur on other fungi, including Daedalea confragosa Berk. ( Fomitopsidaceae ), Cerrena unicolor (Bull.) Murrill ( Cerrenaceae ), and Trametes versicolor (L.) Lloyd ( Barron 1971).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Trogossitidae

Genus

Thymalus