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Silvanus muticus Sharp 1899
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
Silvanus muticus Sharp, 1899
Collection information.
USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: six individuals from six sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 26 August 2020.
Distribution.
Eastern North America.
Saproxylic habits.
Adults occur under bark of various trees (pine, maple, oak, chestnut, and juniper (Juniperus )), likely feeding on fungal spores (Halstead 1973); emerged and collected from loblolly pine and southern red oak logs throughout decomposition (Gil 2008; Ulyshen and Hanula 2010), as well as hardwood twigs (Ferro and Nguyen 2016); associated with deadwood in upland forests (Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 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
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Sharp
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Silvanidae
- Genus
- Silvanus
- Species
- muticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Silvanus muticus Sharp, 1899 sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- Halstead DGH (1973) A revision of the genus Silvanus Latreille (s. l.) (Coleoptera: Silvanidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 29: 37–112. https://biostor.org/reference/113585
- Gil S (2008) Succession of Coleoptera on frshly killed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and southern read oak (Quercus falcata Michaux) in Louisiana. MS Thesis, Louisiana State Univerity, Baton Rouge, United States. https://doi.org/10.31390/gradschool_theses.1067
- 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, Nguyen NH (2016) Survey of twig-inhabiting Coleoptera in Louisiana, USA. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70: 551–558. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-70.3.551
- Ulyshen MD, Hanula JL (2009 a) Habitat associations of saproxylic beetles in the southeastern United States: A comparison of forest types, tree species and wood postures. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 653–664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.09.047