Acamptus rigidus LeConte, 1876

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.15027448

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B8BD951B-C76C-578C-BD1F-96D4DA177AF8

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Acamptus rigidus LeConte, 1876
status

 

Acamptus rigidus LeConte, 1876 View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 2–16 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern and central North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Little known, occur in red-rotten wood ( Hanula 1996); larvae of Acamptus LeConte, 1876 develop under bark, in dead branches, and in tree wounds ( Anderson 1952); species of Acamptus are associated with dead wood, tree wounds, and dead portions of living trees, such as rotten tree hollows ( Kissinger 1964; Anderson 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Acamptus