Vertically Stratified Ash-Limb Beetle Fauna in Northern Ohio

Table 2

Beetle species collected from ash limbs placed on the forest floor or suspended >10 m above the ground in a temperate deciduous forest. Asterisks indicate nonnative species and degree symbols represent species not previously reported in association with Fraxinus according to Gandhi and Herms [5].

Family	Species	Life history	Lower/upper	Total
Buprestidae	Agrilus subcinctus Gory	Phloem feeder/wood borer of twigs and branches, restricted to Oleaceae (Fraxinus, Ligustrum)	0/4	4
	Chrysobothris sexsignata (Say)	Phloem feeder/wood borer, wide host range	1/3	4
Cerambycidae	Neoclytus acuminatus (Fabricius)	Phloem feeder/wood borer, wide host range	38/69	107
	Obrium rufulum (Gahan)	Phloem feeder/wood borer, wide host range	0/6	6
Cleridae	Neorthopleura thoracica (Say)^°	Predator	1/7	8
Corylophidae	Clypastraea lunata (LeConte)^°	Fungus feeder	2/9	11
Curculionidae: Scolytinae	Ambrosiodmus rubricollis (Eichhoff)^*°	Fungus feeder (ambrosia beetle), wide host range	4/0	4
	Hylesinus aculeatus (Say)	Phloem feeder/wood borer, restricted to Fraxinus	8/2	10
	Hypothenemus eruditus (Westwood)^°	Phloem feeder, wide host range	7/0	7
	Xyleborinus saxesenii (Ratzeburg)^*°	Fungus feeder (ambrosia beetle), wide host range	0/1	1
	Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)^*°	Fungus feeder (ambrosia beetle), wide host range	26/0	26
	Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford)^*	Fungus feeder (ambrosia beetle), wide host range	6/0	6
Laemophloeidae	Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens)^°	Fungus feeder	1/1	2
	Charaphloeus adustus (LeConte)^°	Fungus feeder	4/0	4
Passandridae	Catogenus rufus (Fabricius)^°	Predator	0/3	3
Silvanidae	Ahasverus advena (Waltl)^°	Fungus feeder	1/2	3
	Cathartosilvanus imbellis (LeConte)^°	Fungus feeder	2/0	2
Zopheridae	Namunaria guttulata (LeConte)^°	Fungus feeder	0/1	1
	Total		101/108	209