Conoplectus canaliculatus (LeConte)

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 : 22

Conoplectus canaliculatus (LeConte) ( Fig. 45 )

Range: eastern United States, New York to Florida, west to Texas and Ohio. Habitat: moist habitats (sphagnum bogs, swamps), hardwood duff, rotten logs, pine floor duff, tree holes. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese litter. Biology: one of the most abundant pselaphines in eastern North America , predacious, occasionally collected with ants. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in CWD5 and second- ary forest, indifferent to season. References: Park et al. 1950 (as Rhexidius canaliculatus (LeConte)) ; Reichle 1966 (as R. canaliculatus ); Carlton 1983; Downie and Arnett 1996 (as R. canaliculatus ).

Figures

Figures 43–48. Habitus images. 43) Batrisodes beyeri Schaeffer (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 44) Batrisodes sp. (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 45) Conoplectus canaliculatus (LeConte) (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 46) Ctenisodes sp. (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 47) Euboarhexius perscitus (Fletcher) (Staphylinidae:Pselaphinae).48) Eutyphlus dybasi Park (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).