The Derodontidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, and Anobiidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia) Author Majka, Christopher G. text Zootaxa 2007 2007-09-03 1573 1 1 38 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1573.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.1573.1.1 1175­5334 5096635 FC4FD3BC-9297-49A3-9C91-FE272021F682 Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792) NOVA SCOTIA : Halifax Co. : Halifax , 22.xi.1976 , B. Wright , (3), NSMC ; Halifax , 9.iii.1982 , B. Wright , (10), NSMC ; Halifax , 1.vii.1975 , Mrs. Provencher , (4), NSAC , Kings Co. : Wolfville , 28.i.1978 , D. Krepinsky , ACNS ; Pictou Co. : Lyons Brook , 23.iv.1996 , E. Georgeson , (22), in stored grains, NSNR . PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND : Queens Co. : Charlottetown , 24.i.1995 , M.E.M. Smith , in health-food store, ACPE . An established, adventive species. Newly recorded in Nova Scotia , Prince Edward Island , and in the Maritime Provinces as a whole ( Fig. 7 ). Cosmopolitan; in temperate regions confined to buildings; in Canada recorded from British Columbia east to Québec ( Bousquet 1990 ). Primarily found boring in stored wheat and corn, but it can also infest tobacco, nuts, beans, bird seed, biscuits, cassava, cocoa beans, dried fruit, peanuts, spices, and dried meat and fish ( Koehler 1999 ).