Carpophilus (Ecnomorphus) antiquus (Melsheimer, 1844)

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

Carpophilus (Ecnomorphus) antiquus (Melsheimer, 1844)

Notes.

This species has only been recorded in Quebec, Canada ( Bousquet et al. 2013) and is prevalent across much of the eastern United States including states that border with Canada ( Parsons 1943; Price and Young 2006; Morris 2020). Neither BugGuide (BG), an online entomological database hosted by Iowa State University, or iNaturalist, a citizen science database, list Ontario when reporting the distribution of the species. However, Ontario is listed under the distribution of this species in Downie and Arnett (1996) but without supporting data. Here, we recorded C. (E.) antiquus for the first time in Ontario from two localities in 2018.

New records.

Ontario: Windsor, ON, Maidstone Conservation Area off lakeshore Rd. 209, 42.2130°N, 82.7911°W, 8-v-2018 (19, OFRI); ibidem, 15-v-2018 (2, OFRI). All samples were taken from wind-oriented funnel traps, in hardwood forest next to Quercus sp.

London, ON, Fanshawe Conservation Area off Fanshawe Park Rd, East, 43.0507°N, 81.1818°W, 4-ix-2018, wind-oriented funnel trap, plantation forest next to Quercus sp. (1, OFRI).

Distribution in Canada.

MB, ON, QC ( Bousquet et al. 2013).