Bitoma quadricollis

Bitoma quadricollis (Horn, 1885) Collection information. USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 25 individuals from 15 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 11 August 2020. Distribution. Eastern North America. Saproxylic habits. Larvae develop in Hypoxylon fungus growing on oaks, where they were consuming fungal tissue (Lawrence 1977); emerged from pine and especially oaks (Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a); adults most commonly reside under bark of freshly killed oaks, but also maple and beech (Stephan 1989; Gil 2008). Conservation. Significantly associated with, and occurrence probability increases in, old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont (Traylor et al. 2023 a, 2024).