Mordellistena liturata (Melsheimer, 1846)

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.15027765

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C520FB5-5193-52B4-8364-657CB9D19F49

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Mordellistena liturata (Melsheimer, 1846)
status

 

Mordellistena liturata (Melsheimer, 1846)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 277 individuals from 37 sites. Caught in flight trap from 19 May – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from fresh swamp white oak logs ( Quercus bicolor Willd. ) ( Powell et al. 2016, G. S. Powell in litt.), and from moderately decayed loblolly pine logs ( Ulyshen et al. 2020; Traylor et al. 2023 c).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with forests in highly forested landscapes (> 50 % forest) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2023 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Mordellidae

Genus

Mordellistena