Platysoma parallelum (Say, 1825)

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.15027652

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6EEBC519-AA9D-521D-8A80-E0259D35DB87

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Platysoma parallelum (Say, 1825)
status

 

Platysoma parallelum (Say, 1825) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Predator of bark beetles in pine ( Shepherd and Goyer 2005), and adults also occur under decaying elm bark ( Hoffmann 1942); emerged from and associated with fresh loblolly pine logs ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

Genus

Platysoma