Tetratoma tessellata Melsheimer

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 : 48-52

Tetratoma tessellata Melsheimer

NOVA SCOTIA: Antigonish Co.: Cape George Pt., 15.vi.1993, M. Leblanc, NSNR; Morar, 7.vii.1993, M. Leblanc, NSNR; Colchester Co.: Upper Kemptown, 29.vii.1994, D. Kehler, NSMC; Cumberland Co.: East Leicester, 29.vi,1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; East Leicester, 28.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Fox River, 28.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Moose River, 29.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Spencer’s Island, 13.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Spencer’s Island, 28.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Guysborough Co.: Dayspring Lake, 16–29.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Seloam Lake, 29.vii.­13.viii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Hants Co.: Panuke Lake, 29.vii–13.viii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Queens Co.: 13–24.viii.2004, H. Love, NSMC; Yarmouth Co.: Wellington, 12–20.viii.1991, J. Cook, JCC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. Found on dead Betula , Acer , and Quercus and on fungi growing on these trees ( Chantal 1985); in Nova Scotia, specimens were collected in all ages of both coniferous and deciduous forests, the majority with flight­intercept traps.