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Valgus canaliculatus
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
Valgus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1789)
Collection information.
USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 480 individuals from 37 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 27 July 2020.
Distribution.
Eastern United States.
Saproxylic habits.
Associated with subterranean termites (Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar, 1837) (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)), and larvae develop by feeding on the walls of the termite galleries (Ritcher 1958); adults occur under bark of standing dead trees, such as mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa Nutt.) and pine (Howden and Vogt 1951; Steury and Paulsen 2022).
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
- Olivier
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Valgus
- Species
- canaliculatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Valgus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1789) sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- Ritcher PO (1958) Biology of Scarabaeidae. Annual Review of Entomology 3: 311–334. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.en.03.010158.001523
- Howden HF, Vogt GB (1951) Insect communities of standing dead pine (Pinus virginia Mill.). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 44: 581–595. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/44.4.581
- Steury BW, Paulsen MJ (2022) The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia, USA. The Maryland Entomologist 8: 58–79.