Triplax thoracica Say, 1825

Majka, Christopher G., 2007, The Erotylidae and Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: New records, zoogeography, and observations on beetle-fungi relationships and forest health, Zootaxa 1546, pp. 39-50 : 43-44

Triplax thoracica Say, 1825

NEW BRUNSWICK: Gloucester Co.: Bathurst, vii.1910, J.N. Knull, CNC; Carleton Co.: Richmond Hovey Hill, 19.viii.2004, R.P. Webster, hardwood forest: fleshy fungi, RPWC. NOVA SCOTIA: 16 specimens examined from Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, Kings, Lunenburg, Pictou, and Queens counties. The earliest records are from 1965 (Cumberland Co.: Wentworth, 21.v-5.vii.1965, B. Wright, sugar maple forest, window trap, NSMC; Lunenburg Co.: Bridgewater, 19.vi.1965, Dept. of Forestry, NSMC). PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 26.ix.1983, L.S. Thompson, oyster mushroom, (4), ACPE; St. Patricks, 30.vi.2003, C.G. Majka, mixed forest, CGMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ( Fig. 2 ). Recorded from various mushrooms and soft polypore fungi in the genera Amanita , Auricularia, Bjerkandera, Ganoderma, Hericium, Hipsizygus , Panus, Pholiota , Pleurotus , and Polyporus ( Skelley et al. 1991) . Recorded from the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus , on Prince Edward Island.

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FIGURE 2. Distribution of Triplax dissimulator (Crotch), Triplax flavicollis Lacordaire, Triplax frosti Casey, Triplax macra LeConte, and Triplax thoracica Say in the Maritime Provinces of Canada.