Larinus planus (Fabricius, 1792) 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 : 34

Larinus planus (Fabricius, 1792) new to Quebec

Note.

This adventive Palaearctic species was introduced to North America for the biological control of Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. ( Asteraceae ) ( Anderson 2002). It is present in Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Ontario.

Specimen data.

Quebec: MRC Marguerite-D’Youville, Varennes ( Verchères), 25.viii.2001, 6.ix.2001, 16.viii.2004, 12.vi.2006, 13.vi.2006, C. Chantal (8, CCCH); MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot, 20.vi.2009, 21.vi.2009, 30.viii.2009, 30.viii.2012, all on Cirsium arvense , P. de Tonnancour (6, CPTO); Montreal, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 25.vi.2010, 7.vi., 11.vi.2011, on Cirsium arvense , P. de Tonnancour (12, CPTO).