Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1781)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 25 individuals from 13 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern and central North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults prey upon bark and woodboring beetles (Blackman and Stage 1924; Savely 1939; Hoffmann 1942); emerged from a wide variety of hardwood trees, and frequently occur on downed logs (Opitz 2017).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with, and occurrence probability increases in, old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2023 a, 2024).