Petalium bistriatum (Say, 1825)

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D., Cornish, J. Winston, Tigreros, Gabriel & McHugh, Joseph V., 2025, Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

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).