Platydracus exulans (Erichson, 1839)

Note.

See Brunke et al. (2011) for illustrations and identification. This native species was reported from Quebec by Downie and Arnett (1996) without any further information, but because this record was later presumed to be based on a misidentified specimen (Brunke et al. 2011), it was not reported for Quebec by Bousquet et al. (2013). In Ontario, it has been collected only twice (once with two specimens) and, moreover, 44 years apart at the same locality near the Ottawa River in the Ottawa area. The Quebec specimen was also found along the Ottawa River further east and it is not clear whether these are vagrant specimens or if there is an apparently disjunct northern population of this species.

Specimen data.

Canada: QUEBEC - MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Rigaud (45.4906, -74.2919), 3.VII.2020, N. Bédard, UV light trap (1, NBC).

Distribution in Canada.

ON, QC (Bousquet et al. 2013) - New to Quebec.