Uleiota dubius (Fabricius, 1801)

NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 1.VIII.1998, D.H. Webster, on maple, (2, DHWC) ; Kentville, VI.2002, C. Sheffield, in house, (1, ACNS) ; Cambridge Station, 7.V.1977, D.H. Webster, under bark of rotting apple, (1, DHWC) .

Uleiota dubius is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada (Fig. 1). Species of Brontini are found primarily under bark where both adults and larvae probably feed on ascomycete and other fungi (Th omas 1993, 2002a). Common under bark of hardwoods (Downie and Arnett 1996). In Nova Scotia recorded from maple ( Acer sp., Aceraceae), and apple ( Pyrus malus L., Rosaceae).