Diaperis maculata Olivier, 1791

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

Diaperis maculata Olivier, 1791

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 11–26 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America, south to Central America, and Caribbean islands.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop within polypore fungi and adults occur in fungi or under bark ( Park 1931; Wolcott and Montgomery 1933; Daggy 1946; Graves 1960).

Conservation.

Occurrence apparently stable from 1900 – present on Plummers Island, Maryland, despite losses of other species possibly due to changing forest conditions ( Steiner 2008).