Microtonus sericans LeConte

Majka, Christopher G. & Pollock, Darren A., 2006, Understanding saproxylic beetles: new records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Zootaxa 1248, pp. 45-68 : 57

Microtonus sericans LeConte

NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kingston, 30.vi.2002, C.G. Majka, CGMC; North Alton, 21.vi.2003, D.H. Webster, DHWC; Kentville, 27.vii.2004, C. Sheffield, ACNS; Queens Co.: Eight Mile Lake, 9.vii.2003, P. Dollin, 8 specimens, NSMC; Sixth Lake, 11.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC; Fifth Lake Bay, 13.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC; Tobeatic Lake, 13.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC; Brooklyn Bowaters, 26.vii.2004, P. Colp, NSNR; Canning Field, 6–17.vii.2005, S. Poirier, NSMC.

Newly recorded from Nova Scotia. As is the case with Z. hispida , it is believed that the species is xylophagous. D. Pollock has collected specimens in Pennsylvania by beating a dead Crataegus tree. In Maine, found on A. balsamea ( Dearborn & Donahue 1993) . All specimens in Nova Scotia were collected in Picea rubens or Tsuga canadensis forests.