Pytho seidlitzi Blair 1925

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Stenotrachelidae, Oedemeridae, Meloidae, Myceteridae, Boridae, Pythidae, Pyrochroidae, Anthicidae, and Aderidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 279-307 : 291

Pytho seidlitzi Blair 1925 Map 14

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Sunbury Co., Acadia Research Forest, 45.9866°N, 66.3841°W, 28. IV– 8.V.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, mature (110-year-old) red spruce forest with scattered red maple and balsam fir, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC); same locality, forest type, and collectors, 13.V.2009, under bark of leaning dead red spruce, on underside of (leaning) trunk (1, RWC). Restigouche, Co., Dionne Brook P.N.A, 47.9064°N, 68.3441°W, 31. V– 15.VI.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest (1, RWC). York Co., Fredericton, 28.V.1929, L. J. Simpson (1, AFC); Charters Settlement, 45.8339°N, 66.7450°W, 15.V.2004, R. P. Webster, mixed forest under bark of spruce log (1, RWC); 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6848°N, 66.8821°W, 26. IV– 10.V.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old red pine forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC); 14 km WSW of Tracy, S of Rt. 645, 45.6741°N, 66.8661°W, 26. IV– 10.V.2009, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old mixed forest with red and white spruce, red and white pine, balsam fir, eastern white cedar, red maple, and Populus sp., Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

In New Brunswick, this species was collected in a 110-year-old red spruce stand, an old (180-year-old) red pine forest, an old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest (boreal forest), and in old mixed forests. Adults with habitat data recorded were collected from under bark of leaning, dead, red spruce trunks on the underside of the logs. A few adults were also captured in Lindgren funnel traps. Larval hosts include a variety of conifer species ( Pollock 1991). Most adults were collected between late April and mid May, and one during late May and June.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

NT, BC, AB, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS ( Campbell 1991g). This species was previously known from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in the Maritime provinces ( Campbell 1991g; Majka 2006). The above records from New Brunswick indicate a broader distribution for this species in the region.