Melandrya striata Say

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 : 58

Melandrya striata Say

NEW BRUNSWICK: Gloucester Co.: Bathurst, 15.vi.1922, F.C. Craighead, CNC; Bathurst, 13.vi.19 ??, 21.vi, 19??, and 7.vii, 19??, J.N. Knull, CNC. NOVA SCOTIA: Cape Breton Co.: George’s River, 1.vii.2000, D.B. McCorquodale, CBU; Howie Centre, NS, 12.vii.2004, CBU; Halifax Co.: Armdale, 29.vi.1974, K. Neil, NSMC; Halifax, 27.vi.1968, P. Doleman, NSMC; Miller Lake, 11.vii.2005, NSNR; Kings Co.: North Alton, 27.v.1999, D.H. Webster, NSMC; Queens Co.: Lake Kejimkujik, 31.v.1958, D.C. Ferguson, NSMC; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: St. Patricks, 25.vi.2003, C.G. Majka, CGMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. In Nova Scotia, found under bark of and on rotten Populus tremuloides Michx ; in New Brunswick, reared from Betula sp. In Québec, recorded from dying Fagus grandifolia and on the trunk of fallen Acer saccharum . (D. Pollock, unpublished data).