New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Trogossitidae, Cleridae, and Melyridae, with an addition to the fauna of Nova Scotia
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Author
Sweeney, Jon D.
Author
DeMerchant, Ian
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Cymatodera bicolor (Say, 1825)
Map 7
Material examined.
New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve,
46.1957°N
,
67.6803°W
, 10.VI.2005, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, u.v. light trap (1, RWC). Queens Co., Cranberry Lake P.N.A,
46.1125°N
,
65.6075°W
, 29.VI-7.VII.2011, 20.VII-4.VIII.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old red oak forest, Lindgren funnel traps in forest canopy (8, AFC, NBM, RWC); Grand Lake Mead
ows
P.N.A.,
45.8227°N
,
66.1209°W
, 21.VI-5.VII.2011, M Roy & V. Webster, old silver maple forest and seasonally flooded marsh, Lindgren funnel trap in forest canopy (1, RWC).
Map 7. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of
Cymatodera bicolor
.
Collection and habitat data.
One specimen from New Brunswick was captured in an ultraviolet light trap in a mixed forest area. Others were captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in the canopy of red oaks in an old red oak forest and in the canopy of a silver maple in a silver maple forest. Adults were captured during June, July, and August.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
ON, QC, NB, NS (
McNamara 1991
). Only one previous specimen of this species was known from the Maritime provinces (Kings Co., Kentville, specimen in CNC) (
Majka 2006
).
Majka (2006)
considered this specimen was either from an isolated population in Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia or a wind-blown stray.