Scymnus (Pullus) caudalis LeConte

NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax County: Halifax, 9 September 1991, E. Georgeson, NSNR; Halifax, 12 August 2001, C.G. Majka, 4 specimens, CGMC; Pt. Pleasant Park, 29 July 2001 & 24 August 2002, C.G. Majka, CGMC.

Newly recorded from Nova Scotia from a seemingly isolated population in Halifax: it has not otherwise been found in the Maritime Provinces. Broadly distributed in eastern and central North America from the Dakotas south to Texas and Florida and north to southern Maine (Gordon 1976); in Canada from Saskatchewan to Québec (McNamara 1991).