Bystus ulkei (Crotch)

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

Bystus ulkei (Crotch) ( Fig. 37 )

Range: eastern United States, Pennsylvania south to Florida, west to Missouri. Habitat: collected from old fungus-covered logs. Collection Method: emergence. Biology : poorly known. Present Study: not significantly associated with any substrate or forest type. References: Crotch 1873 (as Alexia ulkei Crotch ) ; Blatchley 1910 (as Rhymbus ulkei (Crotch)) ; Boving and Craighead 1930 (as R. ulkei ); Strohecker 1986; Peck and Thomas 1998; Shockley et al. 2009.

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).