Eustrophus tomentosus Say, 1827

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.15027955

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/32A4BE97-E17C-5776-9595-A077E22C81D3

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scientific name

Eustrophus tomentosus Say, 1827
status

 

Eustrophus tomentosus Say, 1827

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 105 individuals from 23 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under bark, in decaying wood or in hollows of a variety of trees, in addition to in or on polypore fungi ( Pollock 2012; Ciegler 2014).

Conservation.

Rare in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, possibly due to the history of intensive forest management in the region altering forest composition and structure ( Majka 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tetratomidae

Genus

Eustrophus