Olibrus vittatus LeConte, 1863, 1868

Majka, Christopher, Gimmel, Matthew & Langor, David, 2008, The Phalacridae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 209-220 : 214

Olibrus vittatus LeConte, 1863

MANITOBA: Division No. 7, Aweme, 7.VIII.1915, N. Criddle (1, NFRC).

Olibrus vittatus is newly recorded in Canada. Th e species has previously been recorded in the United States from Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, and South Dakota ( Snow 1881 -1882; Casey 1916; Downie and Arnett 1996; Peck and Th omas 1998; Goertz 2006; Gimmel 2008). No specific information on its biology is available, however, larvae in the genus Olibrus live in flower heads of Compositae and the pollen-feeding adults are often abundant of these plants ( Steiner 2002).