Microtonus sericans LeConte, 1862

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

Microtonus sericans LeConte, 1862

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 71 individuals from 25 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 27 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from dead hardwood pieces of a variety of sizes and decomposition stages ( Ferro et al. 2012 a), including southern red oak twigs ( Ferro et al. 2009; Ferro and Gimmel 2014); adults also occur on dead trees and shrubs, such as hawthorn ( Crataegus L. ( Rosaceae )) ( Majka and Pollock 2006).

Conservation.

In the Piedmont, significantly associated with forests within sparsely forested landscapes (<50 % forest; Traylor et al. 2023 a) and occurrence probability decreases with the amount of landscape forest cover ( Traylor et al. 2024).