New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada
Author
Majka, Christopher
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
Author
Webster, Reginald
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
Author
Cline, Andrew
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, Sacramento, United States of America
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Epuraea rufa
(Say, 1825)
Queens
Co.:
Scotchtown
near
Indian Point
,
45.8762°N
,
66.1816°W
,
5.VI.2004
,
R.P. Webster
, margin of lake, under drift material, (2,
NBM
,
RWC
)
;
same locality,
19.IX.2006
, oak forest near lake, in decaying polypore fungi, (1,
NBM
)
;
Saint John Co.
:
Saint John
, VII.
1900-07
, W.
McIntosh
, (1,
NBM
)
;
Sunbury Co.
:
near
Sunpoke Lake
,
45.7658°N
,
66.5546°W
,
27.VII.2007
,
R.P. Webster
, oak forest, m.
v. light
, (7,
NBM
,
RWC
)
;
Maugerville
:
Portobello Creek National Wildlife Area
,
45.8992°N
,
66.4248°W
,
7.V.2004
,
27.V.2004
, silver maple forest, in moist leaves on margin of vernal pond (12,
RWC
,
NBM
)
;
same locality,
18.VI.2004
,
17.VII.2004
, R.P.
Webster
, silver maple forest, UVlight, (4,
RWC
)
;
Acadia Research Forest
,
45.9816°N
,
66.3374°W
,
18.VI.2007
,
R.P. Webster
, mixed forest, sifting leaf litter, (2,
NBM
,
RWC
)
;
Lakeville Corner
,
45.9013°N
,
66.2565°W
,
27.VIII.2006
,
R. P. Webster
, silver maple forest, on corncobs, (2,
NBM
)
;
York
Co.
:
Charters Settlement
,
45.8395°N
,
66.7391°W
,
28.VI.2005
,
R.P. Webster
, mixed forest, m.
v. light
, (1,
NBM
)
;
Douglas
,
Keswick
R. at
Rt.
105,
45.9943°N
,
66.8337°W
,
18.VI.2004
,
R.P. Webster
, silver maple forest, under debris near margin of small pool, (2,
RWC
)
;
Fredericton
,
Saint John River
,
4.VII.2004
,
R.P. Webster
, margin of river, drift material, (2,
RWC
)
.
Epuraea rufa
has been recorded in
Canada
from
Ontario
and
Québec
(
McNamara 1991
), and in the
United States
from
New Hampshire
south to
Georgia
, west to
Missouri
,
Kansas
,
Nebraska
, and
Minnesota
, and in
Washington
and
Oregon
(
Parsons 1943
;
Kirejtshuk and Pakaluk 1996
;
Chandler 2001
). The species is found in leaf litter, at sap, in fungi, on tree bark, and on driftwood and was also reared from fallen seeds of sugar maple (
Acer saccharum
Marsh.
,
Aceraceae
) (
Parsons 1943
;
Price and Young 2006
).