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

Gastrellarius honestus (Say) ( Fig. 10 )

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.

Figures

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).