New records of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Canada
Author
Webster, Reginald
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
Author
McCoqrquodale, David
Cape Breton University, Sydney, Canada
Author
Majka, Christopher
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-09-28
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journal article
10.3897/zookeys.22.122
cf4bc9c0-8ae1-4c20-b4bf-52ee84115b5d
1313–2970
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Brachyleptura circumdata
(Olivier, 1795)
***
New Brunswick
: Sunbury Co.
, Portobello Creek N.W.A.,
45.8952°N
,
66.2728°W
,
28.VI.2004
, R.P. Webster, floodplain silver maple forest, on flowers of
Cornus
sp. (2, RWC); Portobello Creek N.W.A.,
45.8992°N
,
66.4248°W
,
28.VI.2004
,
5.VII.2005
, R.P. Webster, silver maple floodplain forest, on flowers of
Spiraea alba
,
Cornus
sp., and
Leucanthemum vulgare
(7, RWC); Maugerville, Portobello Creek N.W.A.,
45.8987°N
,
66.4287°W
,
5.VII.2005
, R.P. Webster, silver maple floodplain forest, on flowers of
Cornus
sp. (4, CNC).
These represent the first records of species from
Canada
.
Brachyleptura circumdata
(Olivier)
was common on flowers in silver maple flood plain forests.
Yanega (1996)
noted that the larval hosts are spruce, and possibly pine. Spruce occurred several kilometers from the sites where this species was most abundant.