Agathidium Panzer 1797

GenusAgathidiumPanzer, 1797 Collection information. USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 69 individuals from 21 sites, not identified to species-level. Caught in flight trap and sifted from leaf litter from 9 March – 9 September 2020. Saproxylic habits. Species of Agathidium are specialist consumers of slime molds (Lawrence and Newton 1980) and commonly occur under bark, in wood, or on fungi (Downie and Arnett 1996). Conservation. Significantly higher abundance in primary (= old-growth) than secondary (= second-growth) forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains (Ferro et al. 2012 a).