Scaphidiinae

Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of the Coleoptera communities in leaf litter and rotten wood in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Insecta Mundi 2012 (259), pp. 1-58 : 24

Scaphidiinae

Baeocera pallida Casey ( Fig. 57 )

Range: eastern North America west to Ontario and Texas. Habitat: forest litter, on spring edge, sifted chestnut oak litter, humus, rotten wood. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese litter. Biology: unknown, some species in this genus feed on slime molds (see Lawrence and Newton 1980), adults collected April to October. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in secondary forest, indifferent to substrate and season. References: Lawrence and Newton 1980; Löbl and Stephan 1993.

Figures

Figures 55–60. Habitus images. 55) Sonoma sp. (female) (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 56) Trimiomelba dubia (LeConte) (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). 57) Baeocera pallida Casey (Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae). 58) Euconnus sp. (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). 59) Euconnus (Napochus) sp. (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). 60) Euconnus (Scopophus) sp. (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae).