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Mycetochara fraterna
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
Mycetochara fraterna (Say, 1824)
Collection information.
USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: four individuals from four sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 2 June 2020.
Distribution.
Eastern United States, transcontinental in Canada.
Saproxylic habits.
Adults occur under bark of aspen (Campbell 1978); species of Mycetochara Berthold, 1827 have been reared from the decaying interior of a living maple tree (McClarin 2008 b).
Conservation.
Apparently lost after 1925 from the fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, possibly due to changing forest conditions (Steiner 2008).
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
- Say
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Tenebrionidae
- Genus
- Mycetochara
- Species
- fraterna
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mycetochara fraterna (Say, 1824) sec. Traylor, Ulyshen, Cornish, Tigreros & McHugh, 2025
References
- Campbell JM (1978) A review of the North American species of Mycetochara Berthold (Coleoptera: Alleculidae). The Canadian Entomologist 110: 921–948. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent110921-9
- McClarin J (2008 b) J larvae - Mycetochara binotata. https://bugguide.net/node/view/169704/bgimage [accessed 20 June 2023]
- Steiner WE (2008) A checklist of the Darkling Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Maryland, with notes on the species recorded from Plummers Island through the 20 th century. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 133–140. https://doi.org/10.2988/0097-0298 (2008) 15 [133: ACOTDB] 2.0. CO; 2