Dacne quadrimaculata (Say, 1835)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 21 individuals from 13 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 6 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop, and adults occur in a variety of polypore fungi, but primarily dryad’s saddle ( Cerioporus squamosus (Huds.) Que ́ l. ( Polyporaceae)) and oyster mushroom ( Pleurotus (Fr.) P. Kumm. ( Pleurotaceae)) (Skelley et al. 1991).

Conservation.

Occurrence probability increases with the amount of landscape forest cover in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2024).