Lobopoda punctulata (Melsheimer, 1846)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 22 individuals from eight sites. Caught in flight trap from 19 May – 11 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop within the rotting interior of living trees (Craighead 1950); adults feed on fungal spores and occur on dead oak limbs and under bark (Campbell 1966).

Conservation.

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