Tylonotus bimaculatus Haldeman, 1847

Chapman, Eric G., Richards, Austin B. & Dupuis, Julian R., 2023, The longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Kentucky with notes on larval hosts, adult nectar use, and semiochemical attraction, Zootaxa 5229 (1), pp. 1-89 : 29

Tylonotus bimaculatus Haldeman, 1847 ; Hesperophanini

Distribution: ME and southern PQ to FL to northeastern Mexico (Nuevo León) to ND with a disjunct population in southern AZ. Kentucky specimens are scattered across the state, but most are from the eastern half (Map 195).

Kentucky counties: Breathitt (1), Fayette (2), Madison (5), Marshall (1), Mercer (1), Powell (1), Warren (1)

Years: 1965 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2016 (2), 2017 (3), 2019 (1), 2020 (2), 2021 (1)

Months: June (8), July (3), October (1)

Collections (12 records, 12 specimens): ABRC (1), AMBC (2), EGCCRC (2), PDBC (3), WKUC (1), iNat (3)

Collection methods: Light (7)

Larval host plants: Betula , Carya , Fraxinus spp ., Juglans nigra , Ligustrum , Liriodendron tulipifera , Quercus rubra , Tilia americana and Ulmus ( Monné & Nearns 2022c) .

Chemical lures: (2 S,4 E)-2-hydroxy-4-octen-3-one as an attractant for both sexes ( Zou et al. 2015).

Comments: Attracted to lights. Adults are most commonly found at night on ashes ( Fraxinus spp .; Bousquet et al. 2017).