The Derodontidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, and Anobiidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia)
Author
Majka, Christopher G.
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Zootaxa
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Lasioderma serricorne
(Fabricius, 1792)
NEW BRUNSWICK
:
Albert Co.
:
Mary's Point
,
13.i.2003
,
D.S. Christie
, in house, (2),
CGMC
;
York
Co.
:
Fredericton
,
26.ix.1987
,
N. Albert
,
UMNB
.
NOVA SCOTIA
:
22 specimens
examined from
Cumberland
,
Colchester
,
Guysborough
,
Halifax
,
Lunenburg
, and
Annapolis
counties (
Table 1
).
The
earliest record is from 1929 (
Annapolis Co.
:
Annapolis Royal
,
9.viii.1929
,
F.C. Gilliatt
, (2),
ACNS
)
.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
:
Queens Co.
:
Charlottetown
,
30.x.1985
,
L.S. Thompson
, (2),
ACPE
;
Charlottetown
,
28.vii.1987
,
M.E.M. Smith
, (6),
ACPE
.
Newly recorded in
New Brunswick
,
Nova Scotia
,
Prince Edward Island
, and in the Maritime Provinces as a whole (
Fig. 13
). Cosmopolitan, particularly in tropical and semi-tropical regions; in
Canada
recorded from
Alberta
,
Manitoba
,
Ontario
, and
Québec
(
McNamara 1991c
). A pest of stored tobacco products, it also occurs in dwellings and stores where it feeds on a wide variety of foods and drugs and is known to attack insect and plant collections (
Bousquet 1990
).
White (1975)
suggested that thistles were the ancestral host plant of the species.