Platydema teleops Triplehorn, 1965

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

Platydema teleops Triplehorn, 1965

Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: 16 individuals from nine sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 30 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under bark, on deadwood debris, and on fungi ( Dunford and Young 2004; Webster et al. 2012 d; Ciegler 2014).

Conservation.

Apparently lost after 1925 from the fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, possibly due to changing forest conditions ( Steiner 2008).