Microtonus sericans LeConte 1862

Microtonus sericans LeConte, 1862 Collection information. USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 71 individuals from 25 sites. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 27 July 2020. Distribution. Eastern North America. Saproxylic habits. Emerged from dead hardwood pieces of a variety of sizes and decomposition stages (Ferro et al. 2012 a), including southern red oak twigs (Ferro et al. 2009; Ferro and Gimmel 2014); adults also occur on dead trees and shrubs, such as hawthorn (Crataegus L. (Rosaceae)) (Majka and Pollock 2006). Conservation. In the Piedmont, significantly associated with forests within sparsely forested landscapes (<50 % forest; Traylor et al. 2023 a) and occurrence probability decreases with the amount of landscape forest cover (Traylor et al. 2024).