Dircaea liturata LeConte 1866

Dircaea liturata LeConte, 1866 Collection information. USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 78 individuals from 31 sites. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 9 September 2020. Distribution. Eastern North America, west to Alberta in Canada. Saproxylic habits. Emerged from moderately decayed hardwood logs (Ferro et al. 2012 a) and adults occur on a variety of dead hardwood trees (Majka and Pollock 2006); larvae of Dircaea Fabricius, 1798 develop within soft, white-rotten wood (Nikitsky and Pollock 2010). Conservation. Significantly higher abundance in primary (= old-growth) than secondary (= second-growth) forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains (Ferro et al. 2012 a).