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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellini » Mordella » Mordella signata
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Mordella signata Champion - Mordella signata
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.

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.
… Boris Büche, 23 June, 2022 - 5:07am login or register to post comments

 
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
… Tim R. Moyer, 9 August, 2023 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

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