Meligethes nigrescens Stephens, 1830

Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald & Cline, Andrew, 2008, New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 337-356 : 349

Meligethes nigrescens Stephens, 1830

Albert Co.: Shepody National Wildlife Area, New Horton Section , 45.6940°N, 64.7000°W, 29.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, sweeping on dike near marsh, (3, RPW) ; Gloucester Co.: Hwy 11 at Nord R., 47.7873°N, 65.0796°W, R.P. Webster, salt marsh, sweeping, (1, RWC) ; Kent Co.: Richibucto , 30.VII.1982, L.H. Lutz, (1, NSAC) .

This Holarctic species is found throughout the Old World in the British Isles, Europe, North Africa, the Caucasus, Arabia, and east to central Siberia ( Easton 1955; Hatch 1957). In Canada it is recorded from the Yukon and British Columbia east to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ( Easton 1955; Majka and Cline 2006), and in the United States from Maine south to Maryland and west to Wisconsin, as well as in Oregon ( Easton 1955; Price and Young 2006). The species is associated with a wide variety of plants, particularly Trifolium pratense L. ( Fabaceae ) ( Easton 1955); Kirk-Spriggs (1996) also noted the host Trifolium repens L. ( Fabaceae ) in Great Britain, suggesting some specificity of the species on members of Trifoilum. Price and Young (2006), however, found it on Spirea sp. ( Rosaceae ) and Rhus sp. ( Anacardiaceae ).