Anchytarsus bicolor (Melsheimer, 1846)**

Webster, Reginald P. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Dryopidae, Elmidae, Psephenidae, and Ptilodactylidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 67-75 : 70

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2604

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Anchytarsus bicolor (Melsheimer, 1846)**
status

 

Anchytarsus bicolor (Melsheimer, 1846)** Map 5

Material examined.

New Brunswick,Charlotte Co., 10 km NW of New River Beach, 45.2110°N, 66.6170°W, 29.VI-16.VII.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, old growth eastern white cedar forest, Lindgren funnel traps (5, CNC, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Larvae of Anchytarsus bicolor feed on rotten wood of submerged, water-logged logs in slow-flowing streams ( LeSage and Harper 1976b; Stribling 1986). Adults of this uncommon species have been collected at lights and from under leaf litter along stream margins ( LeSage and Harper 1976b). Specimens from New Brunswick were captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed near a slow-flowing stream in an old-growth eastern white cedar ( Thuja occidentalis L.) swamp. Adults were captured between late June and mid July. Elsewhere, this species has been collected from May to July ( Stribling 1986).

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, QC, NB ( LeSage and Harper 1976b; LeSage 1991d)