Eustrophus tomentosus Say

Majka, Christopher G. & Pollock, Darren A., 2006, Understanding saproxylic beetles: new records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Zootaxa 1248, pp. 45-68 : 53

Eustrophus tomentosus Say

NOVA SCOTIA: Guysborough Co.: Borneo, 28.vi.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Halifax Co.: Big St. Margaret’s Bay, 29.vii–13.viii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Queens Co.: Tobeatic Lake, 3.vi.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. Found under the bark of dead trees, particularly Ulmus americana L.; attracted to sap ( Chantal 1985). In Nova Scotia, found in a decaying Picea rubens stump and collected by flight­intercept traps.