Understanding saproxylic beetles: new records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
Author
Majka, Christopher G.
Author
Pollock, Darren A.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1248
45
68
journal article
50600
10.5281/zenodo.172970
6e472142-48ad-4d80-b2ab-00326f40eb31
11755326
172970
Scotochroides antennatus
Mank
NOVA
SCOTIA
:
26 specimens
examined from Guysborough, Halifax, Lunenburg, Queens, Yarmouth, Kings, and Hants counties. The earliest record is from 1958 (
Kings Co.:
Kentville,
6.viii.1958
, J.R. Vockeroth, CNC).
Newly recorded from Nova
Scotia
. In Nova
Scotia
, collected in
Picea rubens
,
P. mariana
(Mill.)
BSP.,
Tsuga canadensis
and
Pinus strobus
stands ranging in age from 40 to 120+ years; most specimens collected with flightintercept traps or by sweeping vegetation.