Nausibius major Zimmermann, 1869

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

Nausibius major Zimmermann, 1869

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 34 individuals from eight sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 26 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States, west to Arizona, and south to Mexico.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under the bark of old oaks and rotten trees, and at slime fluxes on oaks ( Thomas 1993; Valentine 2007).

Conservation.

In the Piedmont, significantly associated with old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in highly forested landscapes (> 50 % forest; Traylor et al. 2023 a) and occurrence probability increases in old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) and with landscape forest cover ( Traylor et al. 2024).