EUCINETIDAE, Lacordaire, 1857

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 : 25

EUCINETIDAE

Tohlezkus inexpectus Vit ( Fig. 38 )

Range: Sevier Co., Tennessee, and Macon Co., North Carolina. Habitat: rotten wood, very rarely in leaf litter. Collection Method: dung trap, sifting/Berlese litter and CWD5, emergence chamber. Biology: adults have unique suctorial mouthparts, possibly feed on slime molds. Ferro et al. (2012a): significantly higher abundance in CWD5, primary forest, and spring; previously known from five specimens ( Vit 1995 and C. E. Carlton collection). Present Study: significantly higher abundance in FWD2, CWD3–4, and primary forest. References: Vit 1995.

Figures

Figures 33–38. Habitus images. 33) Xyloterinus politus (Say) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 34) Ampedus areolatus (Say) (Elateridae). 35) Ampedus luteolus (LeConte) (Elateridae). 36) Ampedus semicinctus (Randall) (Elateridae). 37) Bystus ulkei (Crotch) (Endomychidae). 38) Tohlezkus inexpectus Vit (Eucinetidae).