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 text ZooKeys 2008 2008-09-04 2 2 221 238 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.2.14 ad669f25-a6a1-4680-9089-5f28d28e8b0d 1313–2970 576402 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.).