Petalium bistriatum (Say, 1825)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 488 individuals from 35 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from dry sections of black oak and bear oak ( Quercus ilicifolia Wangenh.), with the bear oak record apparently coming from outer bark of a living tree (Ford 1973).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2023 a).