Strongylium tenuicolle (Say, 1827)

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

Strongylium tenuicolle (Say, 1827)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 19 May – 30 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, west to Arizona ( Johnston and Cortés Hernández 2021).

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop within decaying wood of various hardwood trees, including rotting portions of living trees ( Triplehorn and Spilman 1973).

Conservation.

Occurrence apparently stable from 1900 – present on Plummers Island, Maryland, despite the loss of other species possibly due to changing forest conditions ( Steiner 2008).