166. Leptusa carolinensis Pace

(Illustrations in Pace 1989, Klimaszewski et al. 2004, 2018), Table 1

References. Pace 1989. Klimaszewski et al. 2004, 2018. Webster et al. 2009. Park et al. 2010. Brunke et al. 2012.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB, NS, ON, QC. USA: MA (NSR), ME (NSR), NC, TN.

Collection and Habitat data. The ME specimens were captured in April and November by a flight intercept trap; the MA specimens were captured by a funnel trap with a SPB Lure, and another specimen was taken from a Betula sp. In Canada this species was found in hardwood forests under bark of American beech ( Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) logs (common), under bark of sugar maple (common), and in fleshy polypore (bracket) fungi on a dead standing beech tree, and under bark of unidentified trees (Webster et al. 2009). These data suggest that this species is associated with subcortical habitats and other habitats associated with trees (Klimaszewski et al. 2018). Elsewhere, this species was captured in various kinds of traps in sugar maple, red spruce, red spruce/hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carriére), and black spruce ( Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P) forests, with some being young, mature, and old-growth, (Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, Maine, York Co.: West Lebanon, 30.X–5.XI.1990, 1 male ; 18–25.XI.1991, 1 male; 9– 15.IV.1991, 1 male, D.W. Barry, FIT. Massachusetts, Barnstable Co.: Falmouth, Frances Crane WMA, 41.61064, -70.2507, 14.V.2015, R.A. DiGirolomo, ex. funnel trap, SPB Lure, 1 female (MFDC) . Hampden Co.: Brimfield St. Forest, 42.107, -72.2507, 2014 [date incomplete], M.F. DiGirolomo, ex. Betula sp., 1 female (MFDC) .