Ptomaphagus appalachianus (Peck)

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 : 17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5175113

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scientific name

Ptomaphagus appalachianus (Peck)
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Ptomaphagus appalachianus (Peck) View in CoL ( Fig. 20 View Figures 19–24 )

Range: northern Georgia and Alabama, eastern Tennessee. Habitat: caves, forest floor debris, tree hole, rotten tree roots. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese litter, carrion bait traps. Biology: probably a scavenger on decaying organic matter, collected from January through September. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in leaf litter, primary forest, and fall. References: Peck 1978 (as Adelopsis appalachiana Peck ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Ptomaphagus

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