EUCINETIDAE, Lacordaire, 1857

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

EUCINETIDAE

Tohlezkus inexpectus Vit ( Fig. 18 )

Range: Sevier Co., Tennessee, and Macon Co., North Carolina. Habitat: rotten wood, very rarely in leaf litter. Collection Method: dung trap, sifting/Berlese litter and CWD5. Biology: adults have unique suctorial mouthparts, possibly feed on slime molds. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in CWD5, primary forest, and spring. References: Vit 1995.

Figures

Figures 13–18. Habitus images. 13) Caulophilus dubius (Horn) (Curculionidae: Cossoninae). 14) Eurhoptus pyriformis LeConte (Curculionidae:Cryptorhynchinae). 15) Eurhoptus n. sp. (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 16) Dryophthorus americanus (Bedel) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae).17) Panscopus impressus Pierce (Curculionidae: Entiminae). 18) Tohlezkus inexpectus Vit (Eucinetidae).