The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Author
Majka, Christopher G.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1385
31
46
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175098
7a89a251-87be-4b43-992b-b19493bd85cb
1175-5326
175098
Trichodes nutalli
(Kirby, 1818)
NEW BRUNSWICK: Northumberland Co.:
Portage Island,
5.viii.2004
, S. Blaney, shoreline on
Solidago sempervirens
L., CGMC.
NOVA
SCOTIA
: Kings Co.:
Kentville,
15.v.1999
, C. Sheffield, intercepted from Saskatchewan, ACNS.
Newly recorded in New Brunswick (
Figure 7
). In Nova
Scotia
intercepted in association with Palearctic alfalfa leafcutter bees (
Megachile rotundata
(Fabricius))
(
Hymenoptera
:
Megachilidae
) imported from Saskatchewan.
Trichodes nutalli
does not appear to be established in Nova
Scotia
. Adults of
Trichodes
are often found on a variety of flowers where they feed, mate, and oviposit; the larvae are predators in nests of bees and wasps (
Knull 1951
,
Opitz 2002
).