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Issue: Vol. 4472 No. 1: 7 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.6
Page range: 127–140
Abstract views: 125
PDF downloaded: 15

Undocumented beetle diversity in the Southeastern United States: a case study of the minute clubbed beetles (Coleoptera: Monotomidae) 

Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA
Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA.
Coleoptera biodiversity new state records faunistics hotspot southeastern coastal plain root-eating beetles

Abstract

Studies of the saproxylic and predatory beetle family Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) in the southeastern USA increased the known diversity for the family in the state of Georgia by one genus and nine species. Online records of Monotomidae from Georgia increased from 0 to 885. This work highlights the lack of basic diversity information about small beetles that inhabit wood, leaf litter, and other decaying plant matter in this region.

 

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