Phloeolaemus chamaeropis (Schwarz, 1878)

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

Phloeolaemus chamaeropis (Schwarz, 1878)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 16 June – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Southeastern United States ( Thomas 1993).

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under the bark of hardwood logs (sometimes freshly dead with fermenting phloem), especially oak, and apparently feed on fungi ( Thomas 1993); emerged from water oak and sweetgum logs ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a) and occur on freshly dead southern red oak ( Gil 2008).