Synchita fuliginosa Melsheimer, 1846

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

Synchita fuliginosa Melsheimer, 1846

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 47 individuals from 26 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults occur under bark and feed on fungal growth, including chestnut blight ( Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill.) Barr ( Cryphonectriaceae ) ( Craighead 1920); emerged from, and occurs under bark of dead elm, maple, oak, pine, hickory, and birch ( Savely 1939; Hoffmann 1942; Stephan 1989; Gil 2008), and associated with the wood at the base of dead sweetgums ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a).