Pycnomerus haematodes (Fabricius, 1801)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: four individuals from four sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 30 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults and larvae occur under bark and in the wood of moist, rotting pines, and occasionally in bark beetle galleries (Savely 1939; Howden and Vogt 1951; Stephan 1989); emerged and collected from pine, oak, and sweetgum, but associated with pines and occurred throughout decomposition (Gil 2008; Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a, 2010); emerged from burned and unburned loblolly pine logs (Ulyshen et al. 2010).