Penthe pimelia (Fabricius)

Majka, Christopher G. & Pollock, Darren A., 2006, Understanding saproxylic beetles: new records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Zootaxa 1248, pp. 45-68 : 52

Penthe pimelia (Fabricius)

NEW BRUNSWICK: Saint John Co.: Saint John, 13.vi.1903, W. McIntosh, NBM. NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Burnside, 29.vii.1994, D. Kehler, NSMC; Guysborough Co.: Country Harbour, 7 July, 1994, D. Kehler, NSMC; Borneo, 28.vi.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Stillwater, 13.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Seloam Lake, 16–29.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Malay Lake, 14.v–2.vi.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Malay Lake, 1–16.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Malay Lake, 16–29.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Hants Co.: Mount Uniake, 1.viii.1968, B. Wright, NSMC; Lunenburg Co.: Chester Basin, 22.viii.1995, NSMC; Queens Co.: Sixth Lake, 19.v.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: St. Patricks, 13.vii.2002, C.G. Majka, 2 specimens, CGMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Specimens were collected in young and old coniferous and deciduous forests, the majority with flight­intercept traps. On Prince Edward Island, specimens were collected on decaying Piptoporus betulinus (Fr.) Kar. growing on Populus grandidentata Michx. and Herobasidion annosum (Fr.) Bref . growing on Picea rubens .