Spilotus quadripustulatus (Melsheimer, 1846)

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 : 232

Spilotus quadripustulatus (Melsheimer, 1846) Map 23

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 4-7-14.VII.2009, 14-19.VII.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, mature hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel traps (2, RWC). Queens Co., Grand Lake Meadows P.N.A., 45.8227°N, 66.1209°W, 15-29.VI.2010, 29.VI-12.VII.2010, R. Webster, C. MacKay, M. Laity, & R. Johns, old silver maple forest with green ash and seasonally flooded marsh, Lindgren funnel traps (10, AFC, RWC); same locality data and forest type, 21.VI-5.VII.2011, 5-10.VII.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, Lindgren funnel traps (5, NBM, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Adults of Spilotus quadripustulatus were captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in a mature hardwood forest with sugar maple and American beech (2), and in an old silver maple forest/swamp (13). Adults were captured during June and July.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

QC, NB, NS ( LeSage 1991b; Majka and Pollock 2006).