Gnorimella maculosa (Knoch, 1801)

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.15027865

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6DFF8A28-966F-5CB5-B3B4-9B42A9DF50DA

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Gnorimella maculosa (Knoch, 1801)
status

 

Gnorimella maculosa (Knoch, 1801) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: eight individuals from eight sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from moderately to well-decayed hardwood substrates, such as the hollowed interior of a redbud ( Cercis L. ( Fabaceae )) trunk or rotten logs ( Ritcher 1966; Ferro et al. 2012 a); adults occur on dead trees, such as red maple ( Acer rubrum L.) ( Staines 1984).

Conservation.

Occurrence probability increases in old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2024).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Gnorimella