Lacconotus punctatus LeConte, 1862

NOVA SCOTIA: Lunenburg Co.: Bridgewater, 16 June 2004, flying adjacent to mixed forest, G.D. Selig, NSMC.

County records

NB NS PEI Regional distribution*

Number of counties 15 18 3

Myceteridae

Lacconotinae

Lacconotus punctatus LeConte 1 NH, QC

Boridae

Boros unicolor Say 1 2 ME, NH, QC

Lecontia discicollis (LeConte) 1 NH, QC

Pythidae

Pytho americanus Kirby 2 5 ME, NH, QC, VT

Pytho niger Kirby 1 3 1 ME, NF, NH, QC, VT

Pytho seidlitzi Blair 1 ME, NH, QC

Pytho strictus LeConte 1 NH

Priognathus monilicornis (Randall) 4 10 1 ME, NF, NH, QC

Pyrochroidae

Pedilinae

Pedilus lugubris (Say) 3 5 1 ME, NH, QC, VT

Pyrochroinae

Neopyrochroa femoralis (LeConte) 1 NH, QC

Schizotus cervicalis Newman 2 3 ME, NH, QC, VT

Dendroides canadensis Latreille 1 8 1 ME, NH, QC

Dendroides concolor (Newman) 3 11 1 ME, NF, NH, QC, VT

Salpingidae

Salpinginae

Sphaeriestes virescens (LeConte) 1 3 ME, NF, QC

Rhinosimus viridiaeneus Randall 1 12 ME, NF, NH, QC

Total number of county records 21 65 5

Number of species 12 13 5

*Data compiled from Chandler (2001), Dearborn & Donahue (1993), Downie & Arnett (1996), Laplante et al. (1991), and Pollock (1991).

Lacconotus punctatus LeConte is newly recorded fin Nova Scotia and discussed by Majka & Selig (in review). Otherwise recorded in Canada in Ontario and Québec; in the United States in New Hampshire (Chandler 2001), Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (Downie & Arnett 1996). Larvae of Lacconotus have been recorded under the bark of dead fir ( Abies) ( Pinaceae), poplar ( Populus) ( Salicaceae), and oak ( Quercus) ( Fagaceae) (Lawrence 1991).