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Athous cucullatus
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
Athous cucullatus (Say, 1825)
Collection information.
USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 24 individuals from 19 sites. Caught in flight trap from 16 June – 9 September 2020.
Distribution.
Eastern North America.
Saproxylic habits.
Larvae occur in dead wood where they prey upon woodboring larvae (Kirk 1922; Glen 1950); emerged from decayed loblolly pine, hickory, elm, and various hardwoods (Blackman and Stage 1924; Hoffmann 1942; Ulyshen and Hanula 2010; Ferro et al. 2012 a).
Conservation.
Occurrence probability increases in old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2024).
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
- Say
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Elateridae
- Genus
- Athous
- Species
- cucullatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Athous cucullatus (Say, 1825) sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- Kirk HB (1922) Biological notes on Elateridae and Melasidae (Col.). Entomological News 33: 236–240. https://biostor.org/reference/3708
- Glen R (1950) Larvae of the elaterid beetles of the tribe Lepturoidini (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 111: 1–246. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/22856
- Blackman MW, Stage HH (1924) On the succession of insects living in the bark and wood of dying, dead and decaying hickory New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Technical Publication No. 17. 24: 3–269.
- Hoffmann CH (1942) Annotated List of Elm Insects in the United States. United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication, no. 466. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington D. C., 20 pp.
- Ulyshen MD, Hanula JL (2010) Patterns of saproxylic beetle succession in loblolly pine. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 12: 187–194. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-9563.2009.00467.x
- Ferro ML, Gimmel ML, Harms KE, Carlton CE (2012 a) Comparison of Coleoptera emergent from various decay classes of downed coarse woody debris in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Insecta Mundi 0260: 1–80. https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/0260
- Traylor CR, Ulyshen MD, McHugh JV, Burner RC (2024) Forest age is a primary trait filter for saproxylic beetles in the southeastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 553: 121545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121545