Ptomaphagus appalachianus (Peck)

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 : 17

Ptomaphagus appalachianus (Peck) ( Fig. 20 )

Range: northern Georgia and Alabama, eastern Tennessee. Habitat: caves, forest floor debris, tree hole, rotten tree roots. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese litter, carrion bait traps. Biology: probably a scavenger on decaying organic matter, collected from January through September. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in leaf litter, primary forest, and fall. References: Peck 1978 (as Adelopsis appalachiana Peck ).

Figures

Figures 19–24. Habitus images. 19) Catopocerus sp. (female) (Leiodidae: Catopocerinae). 20) Ptomaphagus appalachianus (Peck) (Leiodidae: Cholevinae). 21) Ptomaphagus sp. (female) (Leiodidae: Cholevinae). 22) Agathidium sp. (female) (Leiodidae: Leiodinae). 23) Stelidota octomaculata (Say) (Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae). 24) Acrotrichis sp. (Ptiliidae: Acrotrichinae).