Apteromechus ferratus (Say)

Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of Coleoptera emergent from various decay classes of downed coarse woody debris in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Insecta Mundi 2012 (260), pp. 1-8 : 23

Apteromechus ferratus (Say) ( Fig. 27 )

Range: eastern North America south to Florida, west to Michigan and Missouri. Habitat: collected from chestnut, sassafras, in branches of red bay, under bark of beech, possibly from oak. Collection Method: at lights, emergence. Biology: unknown other than host plants. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in secondary forest. References: Blatchley and Leng 1916 ; Whitehead 1979; Downie and Arnett 1996; Peck and Thomas 1998; Anderson 2002; Ciegler 2010.

Figures

Figures 27–32. Habitus images. 27) Apteromechus ferratus (Say) (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 28) Cophes fallax (LeConte) (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 29) Dryophthorus americanus (Bedel) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae). 30) Xyleborus atratus Eichhoff (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 31) Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 32) Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae).