PYROCHROIDAE

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 : 28

PYROCHROIDAE

Dendroides canadensis Latreille ( Fig. 52 )

Range: eastern North America, south to Florida, west to North Dakota. Habitat: larvae subcortical on the upper side of dead logs. Collection Method: at lights, beating foliage, emergence. Biology: reared larvae required wood inoculated by fungi to fully develop but could survive on sterilized wood, larval predators include millipedes, Elateridae larvae, and fly larvae, larvae are attached by the para- site Zelia vertebrata (Say) ( Diptera : Tachinidae ). Present Study: significantly higher abundance in FWD2, CWD2, and primary forest. References: Payne 1931; Young 1975, 1983, 2002; Downie and Arnett 1996; Peck and Thomas 1998; Majka et al. 2011.

Figures

Figures 51–56. Habitus images. 51) Priobium sericeum (Say) (Ptinidae: Anobiinae). 52) Dendroides canadensis Latreille (Pyrochroidae). 53) Dendroides concolor (Newman) (Pyrochroidae). 54) Clinidium baldufi Bell (Rhysodidae). 55) Rhinosimus viridiaeneus (Randall) (Salpingidae). 56) Aleocharinae gen. sp. (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae).