Bitoma quadricollis (Horn, 1885)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 25 individuals from 15 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 11 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop in Hypoxylon fungus growing on oaks, where they were consuming fungal tissue (Lawrence 1977); emerged from pine and especially oaks (Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a); adults most commonly reside under bark of freshly killed oaks, but also maple and beech (Stephan 1989; Gil 2008).

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).