Cryptolestes pusillus (Schönherr, 1817)

NEW BRUNSWICK: Albert Co.: Mary’s Point, 19.X.1988, D.S. Christie, (1, NBM) ; NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Bible Hill, 1.V.1996, J. Ogden, (12, NSNR, JOC) ; Halifax Co.: Halifax, 2.XI.1989, 1.XII.1999, 10.XII.1999, R. White, (21, NSMC) ; Pictou Co.: Lyons Brook, 23.IV.1996, E. Georgeson, (1, NSNR) .

Cryptolestes pusillus is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada. Th is cosmopolitan species is found mainly in grain elevators and flour mills where it feeds on damaged grain, preferably wheat (Bousquet 1990).