The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada
Author
Majka, Christopher G.
Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca
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Cryptolestes pusillus
(Schönherr, 1817)
NEW BRUNSWICK
:
Albert Co.
:
Mary’s Point
,
19.X.1988
,
D.S. Christie
, (1,
NBM
)
;
NOVA SCOTIA
:
Colchester Co.
:
Bible Hill
,
1.V.1996
,
J. Ogden
, (12,
NSNR
,
JOC
)
;
Halifax
Co.
:
Halifax
,
2.XI.1989
,
1.XII.1999
,
10.XII.1999
,
R. White
, (21,
NSMC
)
;
Pictou
Co.
:
Lyons Brook
,
23.IV.1996
,
E. Georgeson
, (1,
NSNR
)
.
Cryptolestes pusillus
is newly recorded in Atlantic
Canada
. Th is cosmopolitan species is found mainly in grain elevators and flour mills where it feeds on damaged grain, preferably wheat (
Bousquet 1990
).