Calitys scabra (Thunberg, 1784)

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Trogossitidae, Cleridae, and Melyridae, with an addition to the fauna of Nova Scotia, ZooKeys 179, pp. 141-156 : 146

Calitys scabra (Thunberg, 1784) Map 4

Material examined.

Additional New Brunswick records. Queens Co., Cranberry Lake P.N.A, 46.1125°N, 65.6075°W, 21-27.V.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, old red oak forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC); same locality and habitat data, 25. V– 7.VI.2011, 29. VI– 7.VII.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, Lindgren funnel traps (2, NBM, RWC). Sunbury Co., Acadia Research Forest, 11.VI.2008, Brawn/Harrison (2, AFC); same locality but 45.9866°N, 66.3841°W, 13-19.V.2009, 19-25.V.2009, 25.V-2.VI.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, mature (110-year-old) red spruce forest with scattered red maple and balsam fir, Lindgren funnel traps (3, AFC, RWC). York Co., 14 km WSW of Tracy, S of Rt. 645, 45.6741°N, 66.8661°W, 10-26.V.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old mixed forest with red and white spruce, red and white pine, balsam fir, eastern white cedar, red maple, and Populus sp., Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC); 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6848°N, 66.8821°W, 30.V-8.VI.2011, 8-20.VI.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old red pine forest, Lindgren funnel traps (6, AFC, NBM, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Calitys scabra was captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in an old red oak forest, a mature red spruce stand, an old-growth red pine forest, and an old mixed forest. This species was reported from under bark of dead pine and from Fomitopsis pinicola (Fr.) Kar. ( Barron 1971). Adults were collected during May, June, and July.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

AK, NT, BC, AB, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS ( Bousquet 1991; Majka 2011). Majka (2011) reported this Holarctic species for the first time from New Brunswick based on a specimen collected by W. McIntosh in Saint John, ca. 1900. The above records are the first recent records of this species for New Brunswick.