Sylvanelater Johnson

Majka, Christopher G. & Johnson, Paul J., 2008, The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes, Zootaxa 1811, pp. 1-33 : 25-26

Sylvanelater Johnson , New Genus

Type species. Elater cylindriformis Herbst, 1806 , here designated

Description. Body elongate, subparallel, convex. Integument piceous with metallic reflections; finely to moderately punctured, punctures umbilicate on lateral portions of head and pronotum; pubescence moderately long, pallid to cinereous. Head with frons flat to slightly convex; supra-antennal ridge directed medially. Antenna moderately serrate; male antenna long, reaching 2–4 segments beyond apex of pronotal hind angle, female antenna reaching half length of pronotum; segment 3 broadened, subserrate. Pronotum with length 1.1–1.2 X width; disc slightly to moderately convex, with shallow median canaliculation posteriorly; hind angle oblique at apex; dorsal carina absent to weakly defined; basal incisures short, indistinct. Prosternum with anterior lobe extended, length 0.11 X width (female) to 0.33 X width (male), moderately deflexed; intercoxal process slightly arcuate. Hypomeron with mesal margin with narrow, flattened, sparsely punctate bead that becomes a slightly elevated carina near anterior angle; posterior margin slightly emarginate near hind angle. Scutellum subpentagonal, flat dorsally. Mesepimeron narrowly adjacent to coxal cavity. Metaventrite with anterior intercoxal process subtriangular. Elytral striae striatopunctate, shallowly sulcate; intervals flat to slightly convex, punctures moderately sparse, shallow; apex rounded. Aedeagus with median lobe slightly deflexed apically; lateral lobe dentate latero-apically, apex membranous, asetose. Gonocoxites lightly sclerotized; ovipositor rods longer than 0.5 X length of ventrites 1–5; bursa copulatrix expanded, with two saccate colleterial glands, with opaque collar at constriction; spermathecal receptacle saccate, arcuate, wall corrugated and lightly sclerotized; spermatheca short, elongate-saccate; spermathecal reservoir long, tubular; accessory gland duct thick basally, gradually narrowing from spermathecal receptacle. Sexes dimorphic, exceptionally so in S. cylindriformis .

Name derivation. Based on “Sylvanus” the Roman fertility god of forests, groves and wild fields; combined with “ Elater ” from the Greek ελατηρ, meaning a charioteer.

Species included. Sylvanelater cylindriformis (Herbst, 1806) new combination; Sylvanelater furtivus ( LeConte, 1853) new combination; Sylvanelater limoniiformis (Horn, 1871) , new combination; and Sylvanelater mendax ( LeConte, 1853) , new combination.

Sylvanelater mendax ( LeConte, 1853) , New Combination

NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Five Islands Provincial Park, 27.vi.1983, D.S. Davis, NSMC; Lornevale, 3.vi.1995, C. Corkum, old coniferous forest, flight-intercept trap, NSMC; Halifax Co.: Martinique Beach, 9.vi.1993, B. Wright, NSMC; Victoria Co.: Sunday Lake, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 24.vi.1996, R.F. Lauff, NSMC.

Newly recorded from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces as a whole. Found in montane, subalpine, and boreal forests; on spruce ( Picea sp.), pine ( Pinus sp.), and larch ( Larix sp.) ( Brooks 1960).

Margaiostus grandicollis (LeConte, 1863)

NOVA SCOTIA: Antigonish Co.: Beaver Mt., 5.v.1997, S.B. McKay, NSNR; Inverness Co.: Bornish Hills, 10–14.vii.1995, G.R. MacPherson, CBU.

Newly recorded from Nova Scotia. In New Brunswick collected in a mature hardwood forest. In Québec collected in pine woods ( Levesque & Levesque 1993).