Dacne quadrimaculata (Say, 1835)

Majka, Christopher G., 2007, The Erotylidae and Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: New records, zoogeography, and observations on beetle-fungi relationships and forest health, Zootaxa 1546, pp. 39-50 : 42

Dacne quadrimaculata (Say, 1835)

NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 28.v.2006, D.H. Webster, DHWC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and the Maritime Provinces as a whole ( Fig. 1 ). Larvae feed in a variety of hard and soft basidiomycete bracket fungi in the genera Clavicorona, Ganoderma , Hypsizygus , Lentinus , Piptoporus , Pleurotus, Pluteus , Polyporus , and Stereum ( Skelley et al. 1991) .

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of Dacne quadrimaculata (Say) and Tritoma pulchra Say in the Maritime Provinces of Canada.