Platysoma parallelum (Say, 1825)

Collection information.

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

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Predator of bark beetles in pine (Shepherd and Goyer 2005), and adults also occur under decaying elm bark (Hoffmann 1942); emerged from and associated with fresh loblolly pine logs (Ulyshen and Hanula 2010).