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Pseudopentarthrum simplex Casey 1892
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA & Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA
- 2. USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- 3. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- 4. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA & The Jones Center at Ichauway, Newton, GA 39870, USA
Description
Pseudopentarthrum simplex Casey, 1892
Collection information.
USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 16–30 June 2020.
Distribution.
Eastern North America.
Saproxylic habits.
Reared from a wound in a maple tree (Acer L.) and adults occur on dead trees and shrubs, such as wax myrtle (Morella cerifera (L.) Small (Myricaceae)) (Ciegler 2010); species of Pseudopentarthrum Wollaston, 1873 are associated with dead wood and various microhabitats (e. g., tree hollows; Anderson 2002).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-95 in ZooKeys 1232 on pages 1-95, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Casey
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Pseudopentarthrum
- Species
- simplex
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudopentarthrum simplex Casey, 1892 sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- Ciegler JC (2010) Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae). Biota of South Carolina Vol 6. Clemson University Public Service Publishing, Clemson, 276 pp.
- Anderson RS (2002) Curculionidae Latreille 1802. In: Arnett RH, Thomas MC, Skelley PE, Frank JH (Eds) American Beetles. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 722–815.