New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Dermestidae, Endecatomidae, Bostrichidae, and Ptinidae
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent St., P. O. Box 4000, Fredericton, NB, Canada E 3 B 5 P 7
reginaldwebster@rogers.com
Author
Sweeney, Jon D.
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent St., P. O. Box 4000, Fredericton, NB, Canada E 3 B 5 P 7
Author
DeMerchant, Ian
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent St., P. O. Box 4000, Fredericton, NB, Canada E 3 B 5 P 7
Author
Turgeon, Martin
24 Rue Angers, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick, Canada E 7 C 1 V 1
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Anthrenus museorum (Linnaeus, 1761)
Map 2
Material examined.
New Brunswick, Carleton Co.
, Jackson Falls, Bell Forest,
46.2210°N
,
67.7210°W
, 25.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, mature hardwood forest, sweeping foliage (1, RWC).
Madawaska Co.
, St.-Basile, 7.V.1999, M. Turgeon, in insect collection (1, MTC); same locality and collector, 29.V.2010 (1, MTC).
York Co.
, Charters Settlement,
45.8395°N
,
66.7391°W
, 19.VI.2004, 14.VI.2008, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, on flowers of mountain ash and an ornamental
Spiraea
(7, RWC).
.
Map 2.
Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of
Anthrenus museorum
.
Collection and habitat data.
Anthrenus museorum
adults were collected from flowers of mountain ash (
Sorbus
sp.) and an ornamental
Spiraea
, and by sweeping foliage in a mature hardwood forest. One adult was found in an insect collection. Adults were captured during May and June. The larvae of this household pest feed on wool, fur, skins, museum specimens, and other animal products. Adults feed on nectar and pollen (
Bousquet 1990
).
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
ON, QC,
NB,
PE, NS, NF (
Bousquet 1991a
;
Majka 2007
).