Stelidota coenosa Erichson, 1843

Reed, Sharon E., Dutkiewicz, David, Ross, Fiona, Llewellyn, Jennifer & Fraser, Hannah, 2023, New records of Nitidulidae (Nitidulidae, Coleoptera) species in Canada, Ontario, and Manitoba, ZooKeys 1156, pp. 33-52 : 33

Stelidota coenosa Erichson, 1843

Notes.

This is the first record of Stelidota coenosa for Ontario. It was collected at one locality in the province in 2021. The species was first reported from boletus mushrooms in a Pinus banksiana forest in Northumberland Co., New Brunswick by Webster et al. (2016). It has also been recorded from several states along the eastern United States from New York to Florida ( Parsons 1943). Stelidota coenosa was collected as far west as Wisconsin, south to Arizona and can be found in subtropical and tropical areas of Central and South America ( Galford et al. 1991). The IN website does not have any record for S. coenosa in Canada while the website, BG references the report from New Brunswick ( Webster et al. 2016).

New record.

Ontario: Guelph, ON, The Arboretum, University of Guelph, 43.5436°N, 80.2205°W, 5-viii-2021, wind-oriented funnel trap, in Quercus rubra plantation (1, OFRI).

Distribution in Canada.

ON, NB ( Bousquet et al. 2013; Webster et al. 2016).