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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Pediacus fuscus
Erichson, 1845
This Holarctic species was recorded from both New Brunswick and Labrador by
Bousquet (1991)
(
Fig. 2
). In the Old World the species is found in
Estonia
,
Finland
,
Latvia
,
Sweden
, northern
Russia
, and Siberia (
Slipinski 2007
). In North America they have been recorded from Alaska, the
Northwest Territories
and
British Columbia
east across
Canada
to Labrador and in the
United States
from
Colorado
,
Maine
,
Michigan
,
New Hampshire
, and
Wisconsin
(Thomas 2004)
. Species in the genus
Pediacus
are predominantly found under the bark of dead conifers (Th omas 2004). In
Latvia
several specimens were collected under the bark of Scotch pine (
Pinus sylvestris
L.,
Pinaceae
) (
Telnov et al. 2007
; D. Telnov pers. comm.).