Ptilodactylidae - Toad-Winged Beetles

Larvae are known to live in semiaquatic or aquatic habitats, such as decaying damp logs and organic muck. Recently the larva of Paralichas (=Odontyonyx) trivattis has been described, reared from specimens sampled from spring seeps in eastern Pennsylvania (Funk and Fenstermacher 2002). Downie and Arnett (1996) list a questionable record from Indiana, and since the biology and distribution of this species are not well known, I have included this taxa as it conceivably may occur in our area, especially in morainal/outwash areas of southern Michigan where groundwater seeps occur.

Odontonyx Guérin-Méneville, 1843

Odontonyx trivittis (Germar), 1824 Dasytes - IN?, PA

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