I found this individual sitting on my car door, so we chilled it down and placed it on a branch (non-host). In recent years, I have observed this species to be fairly common in dolomite glade habitats across southern Missouri, where adults can be found perched on trunks of their presumed larval host, Sideroxylon [= Bumelia] lanuginosum (gum bumelia), during July. They can be attracted to fermenting bait (16 oz molasses + 12 oz beer + 1 pack dry baker's yeast, diluted to 1 gallon with water) traps placed in these habitats and have also been recorded at sap flows on Syringa (lilic) and Carya (hickory).

Populations further west (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona) are generally assigned to subspecies P. s. plicatum.