Agathidium Panzer, 1797

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

Genus Agathidium Panzer, 1797

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 69 individuals from 21 sites, not identified to species-level. Caught in flight trap and sifted from leaf litter from 9 March – 9 September 2020.

Saproxylic habits.

Species of Agathidium are specialist consumers of slime molds ( Lawrence and Newton 1980) and commonly occur under bark, in wood, or on fungi ( Downie and Arnett 1996).

Conservation.

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