Bitoma quadricollis (Horn, 1885)

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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15028027
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scientific name	Bitoma quadricollis (Horn, 1885)
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Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: 25 individuals from 15 sites. Caught in flight trap from 9 March – 11 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae develop in Hypoxylon fungus growing on oaks, where they were consuming fungal tissue ( Lawrence 1977); emerged from pine and especially oaks ( Ulyshen and Hanula 2009 a); adults most commonly reside under bark of freshly killed oaks, but also maple and beech ( Stephan 1989; Gil 2008).

Conservation.

Significantly associated with, and occurrence probability increases in, old forests (predating 1938 and oak dominated) in the Piedmont ( Traylor et al. 2023 a, 2024).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Zopheridae
Genus	Bitoma

Bitoma quadricollis (Horn, 1885)

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