Petalium whitei Ford, 1973

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.15027839

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E9B2E100-AD73-599A-A6F1-721F976830FB

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scientific name

Petalium whitei Ford, 1973
status

 

Petalium whitei Ford, 1973

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 13 individuals from 11 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 30 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

unknown; other species of Petalium LeConte reproduce in dry deadwood ( Ford 1973).

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ptinidae

Genus

Petalium