Cryptolestes turcicus (Grouvelle, 1876)

NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Dartmouth, 25.XI.1986, D.S. Davies, (17, NSMC) ; Halifax, 15.IX.2004, K. Batherson, flour warehouse, (5, NSMC) .

Cryptolestes turcicus is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada. Th is cosmopolitan species is found in feed and flour mills, grain elevators, and warehouses where it feeds on fungi growing on damaged grains (Bousquet 1990).