Magdalis barbita (Say, 1831)

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.15027488

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F7680C5C-AF6B-57A5-B155-AB5871773004

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Magdalis barbita (Say, 1831)
status

 

Magdalis barbita (Say, 1831) View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: four individuals from four sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 April – 6 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae feed on the inner bark and sapwood of unhealthy and dying elms ( Ulmus L. ( Ulmaceae )) ( Baker 1972); emerged from slippery elm ( Ulmus rubra Muhl. ) and American elm ( Ulmus americana L.) ( Webster et al. 2012 a; Haack 2020); adults also occur under bark of recently dead hardwoods, such as oak and hickory ( Blatchley and Leng 1916).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Magdalis