Dirrhagofarsus lewisi (Fleutiaux, 1900)

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, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7F3DF85-80E1-41FB-8DB4-25E9460FCC9F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027600
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E509D8E-B582-50A4-A493-66A9D3FAEFA5
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scientific name	Dirrhagofarsus lewisi (Fleutiaux, 1900)
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Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 104 individuals from 32 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Native to Japan, adventive in the eastern United States ( Ford and Spilman 1979; Otto and Karns 2017).

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop in the wet sapwood of American beech ( Ford and Spilman 1979); emerged from moderately decayed hardwood logs ( Ferro et al. 2012 a) and occur on southern red oak ( Gil 2008).

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

Ford EJ, Spilman TJ (1979) Biology and immature stages of Dirrhagofarsus lewisi, a species new to the United States (Coleoptera, Eucnemidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 33: 75–84. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.371761

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

Otto RL, Karns KD (2017) New state records for Nearctic false click beetles (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae). Insecta Mundi 0582: 1–21. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1083/