Cophes fallax

Cophes fallax (LeConte, 1876) Collection information. USA: Georgia (new state record *): Clarke Co.: five individuals from four sites. Caught in flight trap and sifted from leaf litter from 2 June – 9 September 2020. Distribution. Eastern North America. Saproxylic habits. Emerged from a variety of hardwood twigs and branches (Blatchley and Leng 1916; Ferro and Gimmel 2014; Ferro and Nguyen 2016) and associated with fresh, small-diameter wood (Ferro et al. 2012 a). Conservation. Significantly higher abundance in primary (= old-growth) than secondary (= second-growth) forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains (Ferro et al. 2012 a).