New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada
Author
Majka, Christopher
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
Author
Webster, Reginald
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
Author
Cline, Andrew
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, Sacramento, United States of America
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ZooKeys
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2008-09-04
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10.3897/zookeys.2.23
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Heterhelus sericans
(LeConte, 1869)
Albert Co.:
Shepody National Wildlife Area
,
Mary’s Point Section
,
45.7320°N
,
64.6765°W
,
16.VI.2004
,
R.P. Webster
, on flowers in spruce forest, (8,
NBM
,
RWC
)
;
Carleton
Co.
:
Belleville
,
Meduxnekeeg
Valley
Nature Preserve
,
46.1965°N
,
67.6803°W
,
31.V.2005
,
M.-A. Giguére
&
R.Webster
, old field, sweeping (5,
NBM
,
RWC
)
;
York
Co.:
Fredericton
,
45.9110°N
,
66.6686°W
,
4.VI.2004
,
R.P. Webster
, sweeping roadside vegetation near black spruce bog, (7,
NBM
,
RWC
)
.
Heterhelus sericans
has been recorded in
Canada
from
British Columbia
,
Ontario
,
Québec
,
Nova Scotia
, and Newfoundland (
McNamara 1991
;
Majka and Cline 2006
), and in the
United States
from
Maine
south to
North Carolina
and
Tennessee
, and west to
Kansas
and
Wisconsin
(
Parsons 1943
;
Chandler 2001
;
Price and Young 2006
).
In Nova Scotia
specimens were principally collected in deciduous forests associated with blossoms of
Sambucus racemosa
L. (
Caprifoliaceae
),
Diervilla lonicera
, P. Mill.
(
Caprifoliaceae
),
Prunus virginiana
L. (
Rosaceae
),
Crategus
spp (
Rosaceae
), and
Cornus alterniflora
L.f. (
Cornaceae
) (
Majka and Cline 2006
); also reported from
Aristolochia
sp. (
Aristolochiaceae
) (A. Cline, pers. obs.).