Tenebroides corticalis (Melsheimer, 1844)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: nine individuals from eight sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 9 September 2020.

Distribution.

North and Central America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults and larvae occur within a wide variety of tree species, decomposition stages, and sizes of deadwood, where they are predators of woodboring insects and bark beetles (Blackman and Stage 1924; Hoffmann 1942; Barron 1971); associated with logs and lower boles of dead trees (Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a).