Rhinosimus viridiaeneus (Randall)

Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of Coleoptera emergent from various decay classes of downed coarse woody debris in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Insecta Mundi 2012 (260), pp. 1-8 : 29

Rhinosimus viridiaeneus (Randall) ( Fig. 55 )

Range: northern North America from British Columbia to Maine, south to Indiana and Tennessee.

Habitat: damp, shaded sites in association with dead wood, hanging dead leaves, moss, under lichens.

Collection Method: beating dead branches, emergence. Biology: adults feed on bark of unthrifty alder and maple twigs, larvae feed on inner brown bark (see Howden and Howden (1981) notes on life history). Present Study: significantly higher abundance in FWD1 and primary forest. References: Blatchley 1910; Blair 1932; Howden and Howden 1981; Downie and Arnett 1996; Pollock 2002b; Majka et al. 2011.

Figures

Figures 51–56. Habitus images. 51) Priobium sericeum (Say) (Ptinidae: Anobiinae). 52) Dendroides canadensis Latreille (Pyrochroidae). 53) Dendroides concolor (Newman) (Pyrochroidae). 54) Clinidium baldufi Bell (Rhysodidae). 55) Rhinosimus viridiaeneus (Randall) (Salpingidae). 56) Aleocharinae gen. sp. (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae).