Tetratoma tessellata Melsheimer, 1844

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D., Cornish, J. Winston, Tigreros, Gabriel & McHugh, Joseph V., 2025, Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7F3DF85-80E1-41FB-8DB4-25E9460FCC9F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027959
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0AAC0301-E328-52F6-9407-FCA590387BB3
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scientific name	Tetratoma tessellata Melsheimer, 1844
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Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: three individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 April – 6 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Occur on fungi growing on dead trees (birch, maple, oak) ( Chantal 1985; Majka and Pollock 2006), including a dried oyster mushroom growing on a sugar maple ( Webster et al. 2012 c).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Tetratomidae
Genus	Tetratoma

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