Synstrophus repandus (Horn, 1888)**

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Mycetophagidae, Tetratomidae, and Melandryidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 215-242 : 225-226

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2598

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Synstrophus repandus (Horn, 1888)**
status

 

Synstrophus repandus (Horn, 1888)** Map 14

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1887°N, 67.6735°W, 13.VI.2010, 18.VI.2010, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, in Laetiporus sulphureus (3, NBM, RWC). York Co., Canterbury, 45.8841°N, 67.6428°W, 8.VI.2004, D. Sabine & R. Webster, mature hardwood forest, sweeping foliage along forest trail (1, RWC); Canterbury, near Browns Mountain Fen, 45.8876°N, 67.6560°W, 3.VIII.2006, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, mature hardwood forest, on partially dried Pleurotus species on dead standing sugar maple (2, NBM, RWC); Charters Settlement, 45.8340°N, 66.7450°W, 17.VIII.2008, R. P. Webster, mature mixed forest, on polypore fungi on dead standing Populus sp. (1, RWC); 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6848°N, 66.8821°W, 4.V.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, old red pine forest, under bark of red maple (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

In New Brunswick, Synstrophus repandus was found in mature hardwood forests with sugar maple and American beech, a mature mixed forest, and in an old red pine forest. Adults were found in Laetiporus sulphureus (Fr.) Murr., partially dried Pleurotus mushrooms on a dead, standing sugar maple, in a polypore fungi on a dead, standing Populus sp., and under bark of red maple. One individual was swept from vegetation along a forest trail. Adults were collected during May, June, and August.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

BC, MB, ON, QC, NB ( LeSage 1991b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tetratomidae

Genus

Synstrophus