The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada
Author
Majka, Christopher G.
Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca
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Uleiota debilis
(
LeConte, 1854
)
NOVA SCOTIA
:
Kings Co.
:
Kentville
,
7.VI.1996
,
D.H. Webster
, on white ash, (1,
DHWC
)
;
Kentville
,
9.VI.1997
,
D.H. Webster
, on honey locust, (1,
DHWC
)
;
Kentville
,
22.V.2000
,
D.H. Webster
, woodpile, (1,
DHWC
)
;
Lunenburg Co.
:
New Ross
,
20.VI.2006
,
M. Reeves
, firewood, (1,
NSNR
)
.
Uleiota debilis
is newly recorded in Atlantic
Canada
(
Fig. 1
). Species of
Brontini
are found primarily under bark where both adults and larvae probably feed on ascomycete and other fungi (Th omas 1993, 2002a). In
Nova Scotia
recorded from white ash (
Fraxinus americana
L.,
Oleaceae
), and honey locust (
Gleditsia triacanthos
L.,
Caesalpiniaceae
).