Neorthopleura thoracica (Say, 1823)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 11 individuals from seven sites. Caught in flight trap from 6 May – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults prey on bark and woodboring beetles in various hardwood trees, especially oak (Böving and Champlain 1920; Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a).

Conservation.

Occurrence probability increases with the amount of landscape forest cover in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2024).