Pycnomerus sulcicollis LeConte, 1863

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

Pycnomerus sulcicollis LeConte, 1863

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: three individuals from three sites. Caught in flight trap from 2 June – 26 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Under bark and in moist, rotting wood of hardwoods (especially oaks and hickory), and occasionally pines ( Stephan 1989; Gil 2008); emerged from oaks, loblolly pine, sweetgum logs and hardwood twigs ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a; Ferro and Nguyen 2016); emerged throughout loblolly pine decomposition and associated with the base and fallen logs of dead pine trees ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a, 2010).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with young forests (regrown since 1938 and pine dominated) in highly forested landscapes (> 50 % forest) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2023 a).