Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1781)

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

Chariessa pilosa (Forster, 1781)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 25 individuals from 13 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 14 July 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern and central North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults prey upon bark and woodboring beetles ( Blackman and Stage 1924; Savely 1939; Hoffmann 1942); emerged from a wide variety of hardwood trees, and frequently occur on downed logs ( Opitz 2017).

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).