RHYSODIDAE, Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of the Coleoptera communities in leaf litter and rotten wood in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Insecta Mundi 2012 (259), pp. 1-58 : 19

RHYSODIDAE

Clinidium valentinei Bell ( Fig. 26 )

Range: three regions: north-central Alabama; mountainous Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee; southwestern Pennsylvania. Habitat: humid ravines at low elevations in the southern Appalachians. Collection Method: sifting/ Berlese forest litter and CWD5 (this study). Biology: possibly feeds on slime molds, otherwise unknown. Present Study: indifferent to substrate, forest, and season. References: Bell 1970 ; Bell and Bell 1985; Bousquet and Larochelle 1993; Downie and Arnett 1996; Ciegler 2000.

Figures

Figures 25–30. Habitus images. 25) Pteryx sp. (Ptiliidae:Ptiliinae). 26) Clinidium valentinei Bell (Rhysodidae).27) Dialytellus tragicus (Schmidt) (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae).28) Aleocharinae gen. sp. (Staphylinidae), representative of the specimens that could not be identified to genus. 29) Aleodorus bilobatus (Say) (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). 30) Athetini gen. sp. (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) representative of the specimens that could not be identified to genus.