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Mordella signata
Photo#439907
Copyright © 2010
Mike Quinn
Mordella signata Champion -
Mordella signata
Brackenridge Field Laboratory (BFL), UT, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
September 7, 1997
Det. T. Moyer, 2010
coll'ed by A.W. Hook
spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX
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Contributed by
Mike Quinn
on 10 August, 2010 - 9:11am
Last updated 4 August, 2023 - 5:17pm
may well be a different species
M. signata
Champion, 1891 described as black, probably including the tibial spurs,
with white markings on head and pronotum, the latter with three, not four dark streaks.
This mesoamerican form can be seen on
iNaturalist
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north-of-Mexico findings of
M. signata
(sensu Liljeblad, 1945, AZ) differ from the Champion species
in having brown elytra, pallid tibial spurs, and the pronotum without definite pattern.
Example:
Note the elytral fascia being considerably more posteriour in position in the Texas, than in the AZ Mordellid.
Note also streak of white hair along suture.
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Boris Büche
, 23 June, 2022 - 5:07am
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signata, as described by Liljeblad
I can't find Champion's original description, but Liljeblad describes signata as "head black, prothorax black, elytra with ground ferruginous, darker toward apex" (along with descriptions of the markings). Matches this one exactly (and the other that was moved from signata)
Thanks,
Tim
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Tim Moyer
, 9 August, 2023 - 8:49pm
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