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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Cryptamorpha desjardinsi
(Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
NOVA SCOTIA
:
Kings Co.
:
Kentville
,
22.
III.
2002
,
D.H. Webster
, in imported bok choy, (
1
,
DHWC
)
.
In Nova Scotia
Cryptamorpha desjardinsi
was intercepted in bok choy, probably imported from the
United States
. Th ere is no evidence that the species is established. Th is species is native to tropical Asia and is now established in
Florida
and
Alabama
in the
United States
(Th omas 1993, 2002a). It is associated with plant molds and is found in sugarcane sheathes, on palmettos, on bananas, pineapples, and similar plants. Adults and larvae feed on sugarcane smut,
Ustilago scitaminea
Syd.
(
Thomas 1993
).