Cerylon castaneum (Say, 1826)

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

Cerylon castaneum (Say, 1826)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: four individuals from three sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 19 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, transcontinental in the north.

Saproxylic habits.

Feed on spores and hyphae of fungi growing on and under the bark of dead trees ( Lawrence and Stephan 1975); emerged from hardwood logs ( Ferro et al. 2012 a), and adults occur under bark after four to six years of decomposition (in hickory, Blackman and Stage 1924).

Conservation.

Significantly higher abundance in primary (= old-growth) than secondary (= second-growth) forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains ( Ferro et al. 2012 a).