Stenopterapion meliloti (Kirby, 1808) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 18

Stenopterapion meliloti (Kirby, 1808) new to Canada

Note.

This adventive species is broadly distributed in the Palaearctic Region ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2011). In Canada it feeds on the introduced weed Melilotus alba Desr. which is common across Canada ( Turkington et al. 1978). This species may be more widespread in Canada than presently documented because extensive surveys have not been conducted.

Specimen data.

Quebec: MRC La Vallée-du-Richelieu, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 7.vi., 23.vi.2004, 18.viii.2007, H. Miquet-Sage (3, CHMS); MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot, 2.iv.2007, 12.v.2011 (13:00), 17.v.2011, 10.vi.2011, 14.ix.2011, 19.iv.2012 (13:00), under bark of Pinus strobus , swept from Melilotus alba , P. de Tonnancour (2, CNCI; 29, CPTO).