Valgus seticollis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)

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.15027869

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5DABCFEB-75B6-5AEC-992F-CC72C19EFB2D

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Valgus seticollis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)
status

 

Valgus seticollis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 21 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Associated with subterranean termites ( R. flavipes ), and larvae develop by feeding on the walls of termite galleries ( Ritcher 1958).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Valgus