Zenodosus sanguineus (Say, 1835)

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Trogossitidae, Cleridae, and Melyridae, with an addition to the fauna of Nova Scotia, ZooKeys 179, pp. 141-156 : 147-149

Zenodosus sanguineus (Say, 1835) Map 6

Material examined.

Additional New Brunswick records. Carleton Co.,Jackson Falls,Bell Forest, 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 13.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, in decaying fleshy polypore fungi (1, RWC); same locality data, collector, and forest type, 6.V.2007, in partially dried polypore fungus on dead tree (1, RWC); same locality data, collector, and forest type, 4-12.VI.2008, Lindgren funnel trap (1, AFC); same locality and forest type but 23-28.IV.2009, R. P. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, mature hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel traps (4, AFC); Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1900°N, 67.6700°W, 7.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, under bark of standing dead beech (1, RWC). Charlotte Co., 10 km NW of New River Beach, 45.2110°N, 66.6170°W, 15-29.VI.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old growth eastern white cedar forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC). Northumberland Co., 12.0 km SSE of Upper Napan near Goodfellow Brook, 46.8943°N, 65.3810°W, 23.V.2007, R. P. Webster, recent clearcut, under bark of spruce log (1, RWC). Queens Co., Grand Lake near Scotchtown, 46.8762°N, 66.1816°W, 30.IV.2006, R. P. Webster, oak forest, under bark of oak (1, RWC); same locality data, collector, and forest type, 19.IX.2006, in decayed log covered with gilled mushrooms and polypore fungi (1, RWC); Cran berry Lake P.N.A, 46.1125°N, 65.6075°W, 24.IV-5.V.2009, 12-21.V.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, old red oak forest, Lindgren funnel traps (5, AFC); Grand Lake Meadows P.N.A., 45.8227°N, 66.1209°W, 4-19.V.2010, 19-31.V.2010, R. Webster, C. MacKay, M. Laity, & R. Johns, old silver maple forest with green ash and seasonally flooded marsh, Lindgren funnel traps (2, AFC). Restigouche, Co., Dionne Brook P.N.A., 47.9030°N, 68.3503°W, 31.V-15.VI.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old-growth northern hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel traps (3, AFC, NBM); same locality and collectors but 30.V-15.VI.2011, old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest, Lindgren funnel traps (4, AFC, NBM). Sunbury Co., Acadia Research Forest, 45.9866°N, 66.3841°W, 13-19.V.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, mature (110-year-old) red spruce forest with scattered red maple and balsam fir, Lindgren funnel traps (3, AFC). York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8340°N, 66.7450°W, 20.V.2007, R. P. Webster, mature mixed forest, in polypore fungi on Populus log (1, RWC); Canterbury near Browns Mtn. Fen, 45.8876°N, 67.6560°W, 3.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, on slightly dried Pleurotus sp. on sugar maple (1, RWC); 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6848°N, 66.8821°W, 25.IV-4.V.2009, 25.V-1.VI.2009, 1-8.VI.2009, 15-21.VI.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, old red pine forest, Lindgren funnel traps (4, AFC); Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 1-5.VI.2011, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, flight intercept trap (1, NBM).

Collection and habitat data.

In New Brunswick, this species was captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in various deciduous and coniferous forest types. These included a mature hardwood forest, an old red oak forest, an old silver maple ( Acer saccharinum L.) forest, an old-growth northern hardwood forest, a mature mixed forest, an old red pine forest, a mature red spruce forest, an old-growth eastern white cedar forest, and an old-growth white spruce ( Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and balsam fir ( Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) forest. Adults with micro-habitat data were collected from decaying fleshy polypore fungi and a partially dried polypore fungus on dead, standing trees, in a decayed log covered with gilled mushrooms and polypore fungi, on a slightly dried Pleurotus sp. on a sugar maple, in a polypore fungi on a Populu s log, under bark of a dead, standing American beech tree, and under bark of a spruce and a red oak log. Adults were collected during April, May, June, August, and September.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, QC, NB, NS, PE ( McNamara 1991; Majka 2006). Majka (2006) reported this species for the first time from New Brunswick on the basis of one specimen from Fredericton (York Co.) collected in 1987. This species is common and widespread in the province based on these collections.