Dryocoetes autographus (Ratzeburg, 1837) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 35

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.309.4667

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/760E4033-EB15-A7E6-2024-7BD04274170F

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Dryocoetes autographus (Ratzeburg, 1837)
status

new to Nova Scotia

Dryocoetes autographus (Ratzeburg, 1837) new to Nova Scotia

Note.

This widespread native species, known from all other provinces and two territories, attacks the lower parts of dead and dying conifers. The absence of records from Nova Scotia seems to be an oversight.

Specimen data.

Nova Scotia: Colchester Co., Portapique, 45.405°N, 63.704°W, 26.vii.1927, C.A. Frost (1, CNCI), CNC Diptera 126927; Kejimkujik National Park, 44.386°N, 65.293°W, 17.vii.1970, ex. Picea glauca , D.E. Bright (2, CNCI), CNC Diptera 127810, 127811; St. Ann’s Gut, 46.217°N, 60.616°W, 3.viii.1970, ex. Picea , D.E. Bright (2, CNCI), CNC Diptera 127830, 127831; White point, 46.883°N, 60.363°W, 23.vi.1983, Y. Bousquet (1, CNCI), CNC Diptera 128020, 128021, 128022; Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Lone Shieling, 46.897°N, 60.783°W, 1.vii.1983, R. Vockeroth, L. Lesage, Y. Bousquet (2, CNCI), CNC Diptera 128037, 128038, 128072; Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Jack Pine Trail, 46.779°N, 60.333°W, 22.vii.1983, D.E. & J.E. Bright (1, CNCI), CNC Diptera 128028; Halifax, Point Pleasant Park, 46.822°N, 60.799°W, 13.vi.-5.vii.1990, S. Robertson & G Harding (4, CNCI), CNC Diptera 127944, 127945, 127946, 127947.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Dryocoetes