Apteromechus ferratus (Say, 1831)

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

Apteromechus ferratus (Say, 1831)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 26 individuals from 14 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 26 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae mine the inner bark of recently dead trees, including Sassafras Presl ( Lauraceae ) ( Kissinger 1963); emerged from freshly dead hardwood twigs and branches ( Ferro et al. 2012 a).

Conservation.

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