Platydema ellipticum (Fabricius, 1798)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop within the shelf fungus F. Gilva (Weiss 1919).

Conservation.

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