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Canifa pallipes
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
Canifa pallipes (Melsheimer, 1846)
Collection information.
USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: 63 individuals from 28 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 14 July 2020.
Distribution.
Eastern North America, transcontinental in the north.
Saproxylic habits.
Emerged from dead hardwood trees, such as elm (Hoffmann 1942) and oak dead for 2–3 years (McClarin 2008 a); also emerged in numbers from black knot fungus (Apiosporina morbosa (Schwein.) Arx (Venturiaceae)) growing on cherry trees (Melvin et al. 1967).
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
- Melsheimer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scraptiidae
- Genus
- Canifa
- Species
- pallipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Canifa pallipes (Melsheimer, 1846) sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- 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.
- McClarin J (2008 a) Small, active larva, red oak bark - Canifa pallipes. https://bugguide.net/node/view/174587/bgimage [accessed 20 June 2023]
- Melvin JCE, Wong HR, McLeod BB (1967) The fauna of black knot of cherry, Dibotryon morbosum (Schw.) Theiss and Syd. (Ascomycetes: Dothideaceae) in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Internal Report MS 58. Government of Canada, Department of Forestry and Rural Development, Forest Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba., 7 pp. https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/pubwarehouse/pdfs/23296.pdf
- 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