Microtonus sericans LeConte

NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kingston, 30.vi.2002, C.G. Majka, CGMC; North Alton, 21.vi.2003, D.H. Webster, DHWC; Kentville, 27.vii.2004, C. Sheffield, ACNS; Queens Co.: Eight Mile Lake, 9.vii.2003, P. Dollin, 8 specimens, NSMC; Sixth Lake, 11.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC; Fifth Lake Bay, 13.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC; Tobeatic Lake, 13.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC; Brooklyn Bowaters, 26.vii.2004, P. Colp, NSNR; Canning Field, 6–17.vii.2005, S. Poirier, NSMC.

Newly recorded from Nova Scotia. As is the case with Z. hispida, it is believed that the species is xylophagous. D. Pollock has collected specimens in Pennsylvania by beating a dead Crataegus tree. In Maine, found on A. balsamea (Dearborn & Donahue 1993) . All specimens in Nova Scotia were collected in Picea rubens or Tsuga canadensis forests.