Pedilus canaliculatus (LeConte, 1866)**

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Stenotrachelidae, Oedemeridae, Meloidae, Myceteridae, Boridae, Pythidae, Pyrochroidae, Anthicidae, and Aderidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 279-307 : 292

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2629

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pedilus canaliculatus (LeConte, 1866)**
status

 

Pedilus canaliculatus (LeConte, 1866)** Map 15

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1931°N, 67.6825°W, 8.VI.2005, R. P. Webster, floodplain forest, sweeping(1, RWC). Restigouche Co., Stillwater Rd. at Stillwater Brook, 47.7320°N, 67.3376°W, 12.VI.2006, R.P. Webster, black spruce forest, on choke cherry flowers (9, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Adults were common on choke cherry flowers along a roadside adjacent to a black spruce forest. One individual was swept from foliage in a floodplain forest. Adults were captured during June.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

QC, NB ( Bousquet 1991c). Majka (2006) indicated that this species could be found in western or northern New Brunswick, as it occurred nearby in Maine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Pyrochroidae

Genus

Pedilus