Sirocalodes sericans (LeConte, 1876), new to Quebec

Species identification confirmed by Hiraku Yoshitake, 2014

Note.

This native species was previously known in Canada from Manitoba and Ontario (Bousquet et al. 2013), but its presence in Ontario was reported for the first time only recently (Proctor et al. 2010) based on one specimen collected in Algonquin Provincial Park in 2007. The host plant is unknown (Anderson et al. 2014).

Specimen data.

MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Saint-Lazare, 12VI2013 (14:00), sandpit, beaten from Brassica sp., P. de Tonnancour (1, CPTO).