Enoclerus viduus (Klug, 1842)

Chapman, Eric G., Leavengood, John M. & Dupuis, Julian R., 2025, The Cleridae and Thanerocleridae of eastern North America, with illustrated keys, updated distributions, and special emphasis on the Kentucky fauna, Zootaxa 5639 (1), pp. 1-88 : 43

Enoclerus viduus (Klug, 1842) ; Cleridae : Clerinae : Clerini

Illustrations: Plate 2-J. Key to clerid genera, couplet 17-B; Enoclerus key, couplet 1-A

Distribution: Apparently disjunct: VA to GA in the East and extreme south TX to southern Mexico.

- Recorded from: Until recently, this species was primarily known as a Mexican species with a few records from Jeff Davis County, TX. However, we recently became aware of specimens collected in GA, NC, TN, and VA (Jacques Rifkind pers. corr.; in part).

- New State Records: NORTH CAROLINA: Southern Pines, 4-VI-10, A. H. Manoo ( FSCA, 1); Raleigh , dead oak, 26-V-1953, H. E. Howden, J. N. Knull Collection ( FMNH, 1) . TENNESSEE: Cade’s Cove, Grt. Smoky M. Ntl. Pk., VIII-1962, W. Rosenberg Collection, J. N. Knull Collection ( FMNH, 1). The Georgia and Virginia records were noted in the personal specimen database of Jacques Rifkind. These records had no data or depositories listed and may have been included in Bill Barr’s correspondence or notes regarding museum specimen identification. Confirmation of these specimens would confirm state records for Georgia and Virginia.

Natural History: This species has been collected from feather acacia ( Acacia pennatula ) in Mexico ( Rifkind 1997,

2015). Plant associations in eastern North America remain unknown as species of Acacia do not occur east of Texas.

One of the North Carolina records above was collected from a dead oak.