Xylobiops basilaris (Say, 1824)

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.15027386

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/072F0574-348A-5E3D-8258-BF72C398A00E

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Xylobiops basilaris (Say, 1824)
status

 

Xylobiops basilaris (Say, 1824) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 147 individuals from 25 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, west to southern California and south to Mexico.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae bore into the sapwood of a wide variety of dead and dying hardwood trees, and occasionally conifers ( Solomon 1995); prefers smaller branches ( Hoffmann 1942).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Bostrichidae

Genus

Xylobiops