Dacne quadrimaculata (Say, 1835)

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D., Cornish, J. Winston, Tigreros, Gabriel & McHugh, Joseph V., 2025, Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

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.15027577

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E16B701A-63DF-57E6-B4BB-67B73757A1D7

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scientific name

Dacne quadrimaculata (Say, 1835)
status

 

Dacne quadrimaculata (Say, 1835)

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 21 individuals from 13 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 6 May 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop, and adults occur in a variety of polypore fungi, but primarily dryad’s saddle ( Cerioporus squamosus (Huds.) Que ́ l. ( Polyporaceae )) and oyster mushroom ( Pleurotus (Fr.) P. Kumm. ( Pleurotaceae )) ( Skelley et al. 1991).

Conservation.

Occurrence probability increases with the amount of landscape forest cover in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2024).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Dacne