Genus Orthocis Casey, 1898

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 6 May 2020. Includes one morphospecies that was not determined to species-level.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults live and feed on wood-decomposing, bracket fungi (Thayer and Lawrence 2002); Orthocis have a narrow range of related fungal hosts and fall within the Auricularia Bull. ( Auriculariaceae) ciid host-group (Lawrence 1973; Orledge and Reynolds 2005).