Phloiotrya fusca (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 : 56

Phloiotrya fusca (LeConte)

NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Point Pleasant Park, 29.vii.2001, C.G. Majka, 3 specimens, CGMC; Point Pleasant Park, 23.vii.2002, C.G. Majka, CGMC; Queens Co.: Black Duck Lake, 1.viii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Kings Co.: Woodville Mills, 23.vii.2001, C.G. Majka, CGMC.

Newly recorded in Prince Edward Island. Previously confused with the Palearctic P. vaudoueri Mulsant. In Québec, collected on dead Abies balsamea and Pinus strobus . In NS associated with dead Picea rubens and P. s t ro b u s.