Dryocoetes autographus (Ratzeburg, 1837) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 35

Dryocoetes autographus (Ratzeburg, 1837) new to Nova Scotia

Note.

This widespread native species, known from all other provinces and two territories, attacks the lower parts of dead and dying conifers. The absence of records from Nova Scotia seems to be an oversight.

Specimen data.

Nova Scotia: Colchester Co., Portapique, 45.405°N, 63.704°W, 26.vii.1927, C.A. Frost (1, CNCI), CNC Diptera 126927; Kejimkujik National Park, 44.386°N, 65.293°W, 17.vii.1970, ex. Picea glauca , D.E. Bright (2, CNCI), CNC Diptera 127810, 127811; St. Ann’s Gut, 46.217°N, 60.616°W, 3.viii.1970, ex. Picea , D.E. Bright (2, CNCI), CNC Diptera 127830, 127831; White point, 46.883°N, 60.363°W, 23.vi.1983, Y. Bousquet (1, CNCI), CNC Diptera 128020, 128021, 128022; Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Lone Shieling, 46.897°N, 60.783°W, 1.vii.1983, R. Vockeroth, L. Lesage, Y. Bousquet (2, CNCI), CNC Diptera 128037, 128038, 128072; Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Jack Pine Trail, 46.779°N, 60.333°W, 22.vii.1983, D.E. & J.E. Bright (1, CNCI), CNC Diptera 128028; Halifax, Point Pleasant Park, 46.822°N, 60.799°W, 13.vi.-5.vii.1990, S. Robertson & G Harding (4, CNCI), CNC Diptera 127944, 127945, 127946, 127947.