New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Mycetophagidae, Tetratomidae, and Melandryidae
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Author
Sweeney, Jon D.
Author
DeMerchant, Ian
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2598
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2598
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Eustrophus tomentosus Say, 1826
Map 13
Material examined.
New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Jackson Falls, Bell Forest,
46.2200°N
,
67.7231°W
, 4-12.VI.2008, 5-12.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, mature hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel traps (2, RWC). Queens Co., Grand Lake near Scotchtown,
45.8762°N
,
66.1816°W
, 3.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, oak and maple forest, under bark of dead red oak (1, RWC); Grand Lake Meadows P.N.A.,
45.8227°N
,
66.1209°W
, 26.VII-7.VIII.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old silver maple forest with green ash and seasonally flooded marsh, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC). York Co., Canterbury, near Browns Mountain Fen,
45.8876°N
,
67.6560°W
, 3.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, mature hardwood forest, on partially dried
Pleurotus
species on dead standing sugar maple (1, RWC).
Map 13. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of
Eustrophus tomentosus
.
Collection and habitat data.
This species was found in hardwood forests in New Brunswick. These included a mature hardwood forests with American beech and sugar maple, a red oak and red maple forest, and a silver maple forest/swamp. Adults were found under bark of red oak, and in a partially dried
Pleurotus
mushroom on a dead, standing sugar maple, A few adults were captured in Lindgren funnel traps. This species has been reported from under bark of dead trees and is attracted to sap (
Chantal 1985
). Adults were collected during June, July, and August.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
BC, ON, QC, NB, NS (
LeSage 1991b
;
Majka and Pollock 2006
).