Petalium bistriatum (Say, 1825)

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.15027833
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treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft (2025-03-14 18:24:11, last updated 2025-03-16 00:34:09)
scientific name	Petalium bistriatum (Say, 1825)
status

Treatment

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 488 individuals from 35 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from dry sections of black oak and bear oak ( Quercus ilicifolia Wangenh. ), with the bear oak record apparently coming from outer bark of a living tree ( Ford 1973).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2023 a).

Traylor CR, Ulyshen MD, McHugh JV (2023 a) Forest age drives saproxylic beetle biodiversity in the southeastern United States. Biological Conservation 285: 110238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110238

Ford EJ (1973) A revision of the genus Petalium LeConte in the United States, Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae). Technical Bulletin No. 1467. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Washington D. C., 40 pp.