Further contributions to the Coleoptera fauna of New Brunswick with an addition to the fauna of Nova Scotia, Canada
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
24 Mill Stream Drive, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada E 3 C 1 X 1
reginaldwebster@rogers.com
Author
Webster, Vincent L.
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
Alderson, Chantelle A.
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
Hughes, Cory C.
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
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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.7327
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Ernobius opicus Fall, 1905
Material examined.
Canada
,
New Brunswick
,
York Co.
New Maryland
,
Charters Settlement
,
45.8395°N
,
66.7391°W
,
27.VI.2007
,
R.P. Webster
//
Mixed forest
, m.v. light (1, RWC)
.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
NB (New Canadian record).
Comments.
Ernobius opicus
is easily distinguished from its congeners by the combination of scabrous and opaque (conspicuously granulate) elytra being slightly less shiny than the prothorax, fifth segment of antennae being as long as the third, and the peculiar lateral sinuation of the anterior edge of the pronotum (
Fall 1905
). The species was described from specimens from MA and MI.