Mycetochara fraterna (Say, 1824)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: four individuals from four sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 2 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States, transcontinental in Canada.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur under bark of aspen (Campbell 1978); species of Mycetochara Berthold, 1827 have been reared from the decaying interior of a living maple tree (McClarin 2008 b).

Conservation.

Apparently lost after 1925 from the fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, possibly due to changing forest conditions (Steiner 2008).