Plocamus echidna (LeConte, 1876), new to Quebec

Tonnancour, Pierre de, Anderson, Robert S., Bouchard, Patrice, Chantal, Claude, Dumont, Stephane & Vigneault, Robert, 2017, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Quebec, Canada, ZooKeys 681, pp. 95-117 : 100

Plocamus echidna (LeConte, 1876), new to Quebec

Species identification confirmed by RSA, 2016

Note.

This remarkable native species was previously known in Canada only from Ontario ( Bousquet et al. 2013). The circumstances under which all specimens caught in 2016 were found closely match the description provided by Drury (quoted by Blatchley and Leng 1916): "This curious little porcupine beetle was in clusters on trunk of a dead beech tree, near Cincinnati, Sept. 27, 1900. I took one cluster of 30; they very closely resemble the color of the bark". A photograph of the 2015 specimen reported herein is posted on bugguide.net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1078735/bgimage).

Specimen data.

[MRC Deux-Montagnes] Parc national d’Oka, composting site, 04VI2015 (18:00), white tulle fabric flight interception trap, R. Vigneault (1, CRVI); MRC Deux-Montagnes, Parc national d’Oka, La Grande Baie, 3VII2016, brushed from trunk of a recently dead Fagus grandifolia , R. Vigneault (18, CRVI); same except: 6VII2016 (12:00), P. de Tonnancour (1, CCCH; 1, CNCI; 16, CPTO; 1, CSDU); same except: 13VII2016 (17:00), P. de Tonnancour & R. Vigneault (1, CMNC; 4, CPTO, 4, CRVI); same except: 24VII2016 (17:00), P. de Tonnancour, R. Vigneault & S. Laplante (3, CPTO; 1, CRVI; 3, CSLA); same except: 1VIII2016, R. Vigneault (1, CRVI); same except: 20VIII2016 (2, CRVI).