New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Dermestidae, Endecatomidae, Bostrichidae, and Ptinidae
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent St., P. O. Box 4000, Fredericton, NB, Canada E 3 B 5 P 7
reginaldwebster@rogers.com
Author
Sweeney, Jon D.
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent St., P. O. Box 4000, Fredericton, NB, Canada E 3 B 5 P 7
Author
DeMerchant, Ian
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent St., P. O. Box 4000, Fredericton, NB, Canada E 3 B 5 P 7
Author
Turgeon, Martin
24 Rue Angers, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick, Canada E 7 C 1 V 1
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Ptilinus ruficornis Say, 1823
Map 10
Material examined.
New Brunswick, Carleton Co.
, North Richmond (now probably Richmond Corner), 20.VI.1942, R. E. Currie, beating balsam fir foliage, F.I. Survey 42-L113 (1, AFC); Jackson Falls, Bell Forest,
46.2200°N
,
67.7231°W
, 5-12.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, mature hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC); same locality and habitat data but 21-28.VI.2009, 28.VI-7.VII.2009, R. Webster & M.-A.
Giguere
, Lindgren funnel traps (9, AFC, RWC).
Charlotte Co.
, 10 km NW of New River Beach,
45.2110°N
,
66.6170°W
, 29.VI-16.VII.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old growth eastern white cedar forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, AFC).
Queens Co.
, Cranberry Lake P.N.A.,
46.1125°N
,
65.6075°W
, 18-25.VI.2009, 10-15.VII.2009, R. Webster & M.-A.
Giguere
, old red oak forest, Lindgren funnel traps (2, RWC); Grand Lake Meadows P.N.A.,
45.8227°N
,
66.1209°W
, 19.VII-5.VIII.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old silver maple forest with green ash and seasonally flooded marsh, Lindgren funnel trap (1, NBM).
Saint John Co.
, Fairville Plateau, 30.VI.1949, from house, (9, AFC).
Sunbury Co.
, Acadia Research Forest,
45.9866°N
,
66.3841°W
, 24-30.VI.2009, R. Webster & M.-A.
Giguere
, mature (110-year-old) red spruce forest with scattered red maple and balsam fir, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC).
York Co.
, 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645,
45.6848°N
,
66.8821°W
, 15-21.VI.2009, 21-28.VI.2009, 28.VI-7.VII.2009, R. Webster & M.-A.
Giguere
, old red pine forest, Lindgren funnel traps (3, AFC); same locality and habitat data, 16-30.VI.2010, 30.VI-13.VII.2010, R. Webster, C. MacKay, & K. Burgess, Lindgren funnel traps (3, AFC, RWC).
.
Map 10.
Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of
Ptilinus ruficornis
.
Collection and habitat data.
Ptilinus ruficornis
occurred in various deciduous and coniferous forest types in New Brunswick. This species was captured in a mature hardwood forest with sugar maple, American beech, and white ash, an old red oak forest, an old silver maple (
Acer saccharinum
L.) forest, an old red pine forest, a mature (110-year-old) red spruce forest with scattered red maple and balsam fir, and an old-growth eastern white cedar forest/swamp. Most adults were captured in Lindgren funnel traps; one individual was beaten from balsam fir foliage. The larvae of
Ptilinus
sp. mine hardwoods (
Philips 2002
). Adults were captured during June, July, and August.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
AB, ON, QC,
NB
, NS (
McNamara 1991a
).