Platydema picilabrum Melsheimer 1846

Platydema picilabrum Melsheimer, 1846 Collection information. USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 11 August 2020. Distribution. Eastern United States. Saproxylic habits. Emerged from a standing dead water oak (Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a); adults also occur within dead tree trunks (Ciegler 2014). Conservation. Apparently lost after 1925 from the fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, possibly due to changing forest conditions (Steiner 2008).