Yakuhananomia Kôno, 1935

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D. & McHugh, Joseph V., 2023, New Host Records and a Review of Deadwood Associations for Mordellidae (Coleoptera) in North America, The Coleopterists Bulletin 77 (3), pp. 375-381 : 378

Yakuhananomia Kôno, 1935

Yakuhananomia bidentata (Say, 1824)

Adults are commonly found on dead and dying trees ( Smith 1882), including oak logs in New York (Leng and Davis 1924), hickory boles in Indiana and New York (Downie and Arnett 1996), and dead beech trunks in Ontario ( Brimley 1951). It has been reared from rotten, punky wood ( Hoffmann 1942). It is known to be parasitized by the parasitoid wasp Arotes decorus (Say, 1835) ( Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae ) (Cushman and Rohwer 1920). Adults have been found visiting the wood-decaying oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P. Kumm. ( Agaricomycetes: Pleurotaceae ) in Connecticut (Weiss and West 1920). This is the only mordellid in North America that has been found in association with this fungus species (Cline and Leschen 2005).