Trox striatus Melsheimer, 1846

Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, Insecta Mundi 2020 (787), pp. 1-83 : 10

Trox striatus Melsheimer, 1846

UMRC; DAVC; ELFC.

Collection dates: April–June.

Specimen label data: First two known Iowa specimens and NEW STATE RECORD: Wildcat Den State Park , Muscatine Co., Iowa, 6 June 2004 [2], UV light, DAV ( DAVC, ELFC) ; Timberhill Savanna, Decatur Co., Iowa, 10 May 2011 [3], UV light, ELF ( ELFC) ; RR Adel, Dallas Co., Iowa 11 June 2013, porch light, ELF ( ELFC) .

There are only nineteen specimens known from Iowa.

County records ( Figure 25 ): Appanoose, Boone, Dallas, Decatur, Fremont, Lee, Muscatine, Van Buren.

Figures

Figures 18–25. Distribution of Scarabaeoidea in Iowa. 18) Trox capillaris Say, 1824. 19) Trox foveicollis Harold, 1872. 20) Trox hamatus Robinson, 1940. 21) Trox robinsoni Vaurie, 1955. 22) Trox scaber (Linnaeus, 1767). 23) Trox sordidus LeConte, 1854. 24) Trox spinulosis spinulosis Robinson, 1940. 25) Trox striatus Melsheimer, 1846.