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
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1573.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1573.1.1
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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
).