Gastrellarius honestus (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 : 20

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5175284

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scientific name

Gastrellarius honestus (Say)
status

 

Gastrellarius honestus (Say) View in CoL ( Fig. 10 View Figures 9–14 )

Range: northeastern Canada and United States, south to South Carolina, west to Michigan. Habitat: lowlands and mountains, mixed forests and thickets, in leaf litter, under bark. Collection Method: searching under loose bark, pitfall trapping, night searching with a head lamp, emergence. Biology: nocturnal, brachypterous, predacious, adults found overwintering in logs, larval habitat in decaying wood. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in CWD3–4. References: Blatchley 1910 (as Pterostichus honestus Say ); Lindroth 1961 –1969 (as P. honestus ); Bousquet and Larochelle 1993; Downie and Arnett 1996; Ciegler 2000; Ball and Bousquet 2001; Majka et al. 2011.

Ball, G. E., and Y. Bousquet. 2001. 6. Carabidae Latreille, 1810. p. 32 - 132. In: R. H. Arnett, Jr., and M. C. Thomas (eds.). American beetles, Volume 1. CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL. ix + 443 p.

Blatchley, W. S. 1910. Coleoptera or beetles known to occur in Indiana. The Nature Publishing Company; Indianapolis, Indiana. 1386 p.

Bousquet, Y., and A. Larochelle. 1993. Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America North of Mexico. Memoirs of the Entomo- logical Society of Canada 125: 1 - 397.

Ciegler, J. C. 2000. Ground beetles and wrinkled bark beetles of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Geadeph- aga: Carabidae and Rhysodidae). Biota of South Carolina. Vol. 1. Clemson University; Clemson, SC. 149 p.

Downie, N. M., and R. H. Arnett, Jr. 1996. The beetles of northeastern North America, 2 vols. The Sandhill Crane Press; Gainesville, FL. 1721 p.

Lindroth, C. H. 1961 - 1969. The ground-beetles of Canada and Alaska, Parts 1 - 6. Entomologiska Sallskapet; Lund, Sweden. 1192.

Majka, C. G., D. S. Chandler, and C. P. Donahue. 2011. Checklist of the beetles of Maine, USA. Empty Mirrors Press; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 328 p.

Gallery Image

Figures 9–14. Habitus images. 9) Dicerca divaricata (Say) (Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae). 10) Gastrellarius honestus (Say) (Carabidae: Harpalinae). 11) Mioptachys flavicauda (Say) (Carabidae: Trechinae). 12) Eupogonius pauper LeConte (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). 13) Leptostylus transversus (Gyllenhal) (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). 14) Microgoes oculatus (LeConte) (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Gastrellarius