I had never seen this beetle in the woods behind my house in Maine and had the impression they must be rare. That is mostly second growth with a good mix of conifers and hardwoods but dominated by red maple, white pine, balsam fir, and white ash. There was a nice image of this beetle from New Brunswick by Tony Thomas. That image, as well as his entire bugguide identity seemed to have vanished (what happened? - please come back!). In any event, I remember he commented that this beetle was usually found in beech woods. The beetle pictured here was found in a sub-montane habitat with sugar maple, paper birch, yellow birch, and lots of beech as well. Many specimens were seen crawling over the leaf litter. None were seen on flowers which I think is a bit unusual for a lepturine?