Mordellistena masoni Liljeblad, 1918

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

Mordellistena masoni Liljeblad, 1918

Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: 98 individuals from 27 sites. Caught in flight trap from 2 June – 11 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from freshly cut loblolly pine logs (MU pers. obs.; Traylor et al. 2023 c).

Conservation.

In the Piedmont, significantly associated with forests within highly forested landscapes (> 50 % forest; Traylor et al. 2023 a) and occurrence probability increases with the amount of landscape forest cover ( Traylor et al. 2024).