Dircaea liturata LeConte, 1866

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

Dircaea liturata LeConte, 1866

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 78 individuals from 31 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, west to Alberta in Canada.

Saproxylic habits.

Emerged from moderately decayed hardwood logs ( Ferro et al. 2012 a) and adults occur on a variety of dead hardwood trees ( Majka and Pollock 2006); larvae of Dircaea Fabricius, 1798 develop within soft, white-rotten wood ( Nikitsky and Pollock 2010).

Conservation.

Significantly higher abundance in primary (= old-growth) than secondary (= second-growth) forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains ( Ferro et al. 2012 a).