Ampedus areolatus (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 : 25

Ampedus areolatus (Say) ( Fig. 34 )

Range: northeastern United States, south to Tennessee, west to Wyoming. Habitat: poorly known.

Collection Method: collected at lights, emergence, beaten from vegetation at the margins of low woods.

Biology: poorly known. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in CWD2 and primary forest.

References: LeConte 1853 (as Elater areolatus Say ); Blatchley 1910 (as E. areolatus ); Dietrich 1945; Downie and Arnett 1996; Peck and Thomas 1998; Majka and Johnson 2008; Majka et al. 2011.

Figures

Figures 33–38. Habitus images. 33) Xyloterinus politus (Say) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 34) Ampedus areolatus (Say) (Elateridae). 35) Ampedus luteolus (LeConte) (Elateridae). 36) Ampedus semicinctus (Randall) (Elateridae). 37) Bystus ulkei (Crotch) (Endomychidae). 38) Tohlezkus inexpectus Vit (Eucinetidae).