Cophes fallax (LeConte)

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 : 24

Cophes fallax (LeConte) ( Fig. 28 )

Comments. Cophes Champion needs to be revised and redefined. The last treatment ( Sleeper 1955) does not cover all species in North America. Range: eastern North America, south to Florida and west to Texas. Habitat: emergent from hickory limbs dead two years and Cassia sp. , collected from maple, woods trash, hollow tree. Collection Method: at lights, sifting, emergence. Biology: unknown other than host plants. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in FWD1 and primary forest. References: Blatchley and Leng 1916 (as Cryptorhynchus fallax LeConte ); Downie and Arnett 1996; Peck and Thomas 1998; Anderson 2002; Ciegler 2010.

Figures

Figures 27–32. Habitus images. 27) Apteromechus ferratus (Say) (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 28) Cophes fallax (LeConte) (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 29) Dryophthorus americanus (Bedel) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae). 30) Xyleborus atratus Eichhoff (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 31) Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 32) Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae).