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Published March 14, 2025 | Version v1
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Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer 1913

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

Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer, 1913

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: three individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 9–25 March 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Occur under the bark of deciduous trees where it is a predator and likely fungivore (Bousquet 1990); found in association with bark beetles (McElrath and McHugh 2018).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with young forests (regrown since 1938 and pine dominated) in highly forested landscapes (> 50 % forest) in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2023 a).

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

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/52DED73E8F59515BB13C3043F22B5CED

Cites
Publication: 10.4039/Ent122131-1 (DOI)
Publication: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.6 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110238 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/42C38F0E24F159D4A275585500486F74 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/E7F3DF85-80E1-41FB-8DB4-25E9460FCC9F (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/52DED73E8F59515BB13C3043F22B5CED (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/255911521 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/308642/taxon/52DED73E8F59515BB13C3043F22B5CED.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schaeffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Monotomidae
Genus
Rhizophagus
Species
sayi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer, 1913 sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025

References

  • Bousquet Y (1990) A review of the North American species of Rhizophagus Herbst and a revision of the Nearctic members of the subgenus Anomophagus Reitter (Coleoptera: Rhizophagidae). The Canadian Entomologist 122: 131–171. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent122131-1
  • McElrath TC, McHugh JV (2018) Undocumented beetle diversity in the Southeastern United States: a case study of the minute clubbed beetles (Coleoptera: Monotomidae). Zootaxa 4472: 127–140. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.6
  • Traylor CR, Ulyshen MD, McHugh JV (2023 a) Forest age drives saproxylic beetle biodiversity in the southeastern United States. Biological Conservation 285: 110238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110238