Orphilus ater Erichson, 1846

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7F3DF85-80E1-41FB-8DB4-25E9460FCC9F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027518
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/57B68CAF-B3B5-5DD6-9174-581A3FCF6E06
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Orphilus ater Erichson, 1846
status

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 27 individuals from 15 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 16 June 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

unknown; larvae of Orphilus Erichson, 1846 develop within dry, fungus-infested branches ( Beal 1985; Pushkin and Mykhailovych 2019).

Conservation.

Occurrence probability increases in old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2024).