Polyphylla crinita LeConte, 1856

La Rue, Delbert A., 2016, Natural history, ecology, and conservation of the genus Polyphylla Harris, 1841. 1. New species from the southwestern United States and Baja California, Mexico, with notes on distribution and synonymy (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), Insecta Mundi 2016 (491), pp. 1-41 : 28

Polyphylla crinita LeConte

Materials examined. CANADA, British Columbia: Terrace, 28.VIII.2002, S. Schulte (1 male, DALC).

Remarks. Terrace is located within the Coast Mountains in an area of extensive coastal-interior rainforests.

Young (1988) indicated the northernmost record of the genus in the New World was a specimen of P. crinita from Quesnel, British Columbia, south of 53° north latitude. The Terrace record extends the known distribution of the genus and species nearly 700 km northwest to west central British Columbia at approximately 54°30’40” north latitude.