Rhipidandrus paradoxus (Beauvois, 1820)

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.

Adults occur on oyster mushrooms (Cline and Leschen 2005) and toothed fungi ( Hericium Pers. ( Hericiaceae) and Hydnellum P. Karst ( Thelephoraceae)) (Ciegler 2014).

Conservation.

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