Scotochroa atra LeConte

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 : 55

Scotochroa atra LeConte

NOVA SCOTIA: Guysborough Co.: Borneo, 26.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Halifax Co.: French Village, 9.viii.1945, D.C. Ferguson, NSMC; Big St. Margaret’s Bay, 1–16.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Campbell Hill, 16–29.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Queens Co.: Eight Mile Lake, 9.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. In Nova Scotia, most specimens were found in red spruce ( Picea rubens ) forests; one in a decaying white birch ( Betula papyrifera Marshall ) log.