Synchita fuliginosa Melsheimer 1846

Synchita fuliginosa Melsheimer, 1846 Collection information. USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 47 individuals from 26 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 9 September 2020. Distribution. Eastern North America. Saproxylic habits. Larvae and adults occur under bark and feed on fungal growth, including chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill.) Barr (Cryphonectriaceae) (Craighead 1920); emerged from, and occurs under bark of dead elm, maple, oak, pine, hickory, and birch (Savely 1939; Hoffmann 1942; Stephan 1989; Gil 2008), and associated with the wood at the base of dead sweetgums (Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a).