Mordella marginata 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

Mordella marginata Melsheimer, 1846

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 158 individuals from 36 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 27 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from a variety of sizes and types of dead wood from hardwood trees ( Dolphin et al. 1972; Ford and Jackman 1996; Ferro et al. 2012 a; Ferro and Nguyen 2016); emerged from the fungus Gloeophyllum sepiarium although this is an unlikely host ( Weiss 1920).