Falsomordellistena pubescens (Fabricius, 1798)

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

Falsomordellistena pubescens (Fabricius, 1798) (treated as a species complex)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 9,313 individuals from 40 sites, including many specimens more appropriately determinable as Falsomordellistena bihamata (Melsheimer, 1846) , and several types of intermediate forms of the two species. Because of the sheer number of specimens and the clear gradient between the two species observed, they were treated as a collective here. Caught in flight trap from 9 April – 26 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, south to Central America.

Saproxylic habits.

Falsomordellistena bihamata has emerged from small pieces of moderately decayed hardwoods ( Ferro et al. 2012 a).