Petalium debile Fall, 1905

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.15027835
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C154719B-254A-5E91-8B60-31903A139452
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft (2025-03-14 18:24:11, last updated 2025-03-16 00:34:09)
scientific name	Petalium debile Fall, 1905
status

Treatment

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 2–16 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from southern red oak twigs ( Ferro et al. 2009; Ferro and Gimmel 2014).

References

Fall HC (1905) Revision of the Ptinidae of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31: 97-296. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25076791

Ferro ML, Gimmel ML, Harms KE, Carlton CE (2009) The beetle community of small oak twigs in Louisiana, with a literature review of Coleoptera from fine woody debris. The Coleopterists Bulletin 63: 239–263. https://doi.org/10.1649/1141.1

Ferro ML, Gimmel ML (2014) Season of fine woody debris death affects colonization of saproxylic Coleoptera. The Coleopterists Bulletin 68: 681–685. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-68.4.681