Litargus didesmus Say**

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Mycetophagidae, Tetratomidae, and Melandryidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 215-242 : 220-222

Litargus didesmus Say** Map 6

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Sunbury Co., Acadia Research Forest, 45.9816°N, 66.3374°W, 18.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, 8.5-year-old regenerating mixed forest (off Rd. 7), in gilled mushrooms on sun-exposed stump (8, NBM, RWC); same locality and collector but 46.0173°N, 66.3741°W, 18.VI.2007, 8.5-year-old regenerating mixed forest (off Rd. 16), in gilled mushrooms on sun-exposed stump (4, NBM, RWC); Burton, near Sunpoke Lake, 45.7658°N, 66.5546°W, 20.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, oak forest, on partially dried Pleurotus sp. on dead trembling aspen (1, RWC). York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 27.VII.2004, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, at m.v. light (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

This species was found in 8.5-year-old regenerating mixed forests, a mixed forest, and in a red oak stand. Adults were collected from gilled mushrooms on sun-exposed stumps, a group of partially dried Pleurotus sp. on a dead, standing trembling aspen, and at a mercury-vapor light. Adults were captured during June and July.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

QC, NB ( Bousquet 1991).