Cymatodera wolcotti Barr, 1950

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 : 37

Cymatodera wolcotti Barr, 1950 ; Cleridae : Tillinae (no tribal assignment)

Illustrations: Plate 1-N. Key to clerid genera, couplet 24; Cymatodera key, couplet 5-A, C, couplet 6-B

Distribution: Eastern TX to FL to VA to MO (see Comments under C. undulata above).

- Recorded from: AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, KY, MO, MS, NC, SC, TX, and VA ( Burke et al. 2015).

- New State Records: KENTUCKY: Hopkins County: Thomas Farm , Malaise trap, 37°20.357’ N 87°41.281’ W, 19-VII-3-VIII-2010, Coll.: J. M. Leavengood, Jr., M. Sharkey & S. Clutts ( JMLC, 1); Thomas Farm, Malaise trap, 37°20.668’ N 87°40.518’ W, 13-20-V-2010, Coll.: J. M. Leavengood, Jr., M. Sharkey & S. Clutts ( JMLC, 1); Thomas Farm, Malaise trap, 37°20.773’ N 87°40.645’ W, 3-22-VIII-2010, Coll.: J. M. Leavengood, Jr., M. Sharkey & S. Clutts ( JMLC, 1) .

Kentucky counties (Map 7): Hopkins (3). Kentucky specimens were collected in the Interior River Valleys and Hills ecoregion.

Years: 2010 (3)

Months: May (1), August (2)

Collections (3): JMLC (3)

Collection methods: Malaise trap (3)

Natural History: Leavengood (2008b) noted that adults have been collected on peach ( Prunus persica ) and water oak ( Quercus nigra ). This species has been reared from fusiform rust canker on slash pine ( Pinus elliottii ) and pupae collected from cones of slash pine ( Leavengood 2008b). Nocturnal—comes to lights.

Chemical lures: Leavengood (2008b) reported collections via Lindgren funnel traps baited with alpha-beta pinene or ethanol or turpentine + frontalin from label data, but the attractiveness of these lures to C. wolcotti has yet to be tested.

Comments: Collected with Malaise traps and a wooden block nest intercept trap in Florida ( Leavengood 2008b) . Note: Burke & Zolnerowich (2014) discovered that females of C. undulata and C. wolcotti cannot be reliably separated. Therefore, specimens of these two species that were identified prior to this 2014 paper and distributions and feeding habits derived from them should be considered tentative.