Uleiota debilis ( LeConte, 1854 )

Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 221-238 : 223-224

Uleiota debilis ( LeConte, 1854)

NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville , 7.VI.1996, D.H. Webster, on white ash, (1, DHWC) ; Kentville , 9.VI.1997, D.H. Webster, on honey locust, (1, DHWC) ; Kentville , 22.V.2000, D.H. Webster, woodpile, (1, DHWC) ; Lunenburg Co.: New Ross , 20.VI.2006, M. Reeves, firewood, (1, NSNR) .

Uleiota debilis is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada ( Fig. 1 ). Species of Brontini are found primarily under bark where both adults and larvae probably feed on ascomycete and other fungi (Th omas 1993, 2002a). In Nova Scotia recorded from white ash ( Fraxinus americana L., Oleaceae ), and honey locust ( Gleditsia triacanthos L., Caesalpiniaceae ).

Figures

Fig. 1. Distribution of Silvanus bidentatus, Laemophloeus fasciatus, Uleiota debilis, Uleiota d. dubius, Charaphloeus convexulus, and C. sp. nr. adustus in Atlantic Canada.