Octotemnus Mellié, 1847

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

Genus Octotemnus Mellié, 1847

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: three individuals from three sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 27 July 2020. Includes one morphospecies that was not determined to species-level.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults live and feed on wood-decomposing, bracket fungi ( Thayer and Lawrence 2002); most Octotemnus have a narrow range of related fungal hosts and fall within the Trametes ciid host-group ( Lawrence 1973; Orledge and Reynolds 2005).