Tachyporinae, MacLeay, 1825

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 : 32

Tachyporinae

Sepedophilus brachypterus Campbell ( Fig. 74 )

Range: eastern North America from Maine south to Mississippi, west to Texas and Iowa. Habitat: in leaf litter, wood trash, on fungus, underside of log. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese, emergence.

Biology: recorded from undetermined Agaricales . Present Study: significantly higher abundance in CWD3–4 and primary forest. References: Campbell 1976; Newton 1984; Downie and Arnett 1996; Majka et al. 2011.

Figures

Figures 69–74. Habitus images. 69) Trimioplectus obsoletus Brendel (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 70) Euconnus (Napochus) sp. (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). 71) Euconnus (Scopophus) n. sp. (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). 72) Euconnus (Scopophus) sp. (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). 73) Hesperus apicialis (Say) (Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). 74) Sepedophilus brachypterus Campbell (Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae).