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).