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Ischalia costata
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA & Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA
- 2. USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- 3. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- 4. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA & The Jones Center at Ichauway, Newton, GA 39870, USA
Description
Ischalia costata (LeConte, 1861)
Collection information.
USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Sifted from leaf litter from 27–28 July 2020.
Distribution.
Northeastern North America, south to Georgia and Alabama.
Saproxylic habits.
Larvae and adults of Ischalia Pascoe, 1860 feed on fungal mycelia growing on rotting stumps and downed logs (Young 1985); adults are flightless (Majka 2011).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-95 in ZooKeys 1232 on pages 1-95, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- LeConte
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Ischaliidae
- Genus
- Ischalia
- Species
- costata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ischalia costata (LeConte, 1861) sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- Young DK (1985) Description of the larva of Ischalia vancouverensis Harrington (Coleoptera: Anthicidae: Ischaliinae), with observations on the systematic position of the genus. The Coleopterists Bulletin 39: 201–206. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4008271
- Majka CG (2011) The Anthicidae and Ischaliidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society 7: 50–64. https://acadianes.org/journal/papers/anthicid_11-9.pdf