Abstract
Twenty-two species of Elateridae are newly reported for New Brunswick, Canada. Negastrius exiguus (Randall) is removed from the faunal list and Agriotes pubescens Melsheimer is re-instated as a member of the New Brunswick fauna. Agriotes pubescens Melsheimer, Dalopius brevicornis W. J. Brown, Danosoma obtectum (Say) and Megapenthes solitarius Fall are newly reported for the Maritime provinces. Collection data, bionomic data, and distribution maps are presented for all these species.
Highlights
The Elateridae is a species-rich family of beetles with about 965 named species in North America (Johnson 2002) and 369 species and subspecies from Canada and Alaska (Bousquet 1991)
Additional provincial records were obtained from specimens contained in the collection belonging to Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Twenty-two species of Elateridae are newly reported for New Brunswick, Negastrius exiguus (Randall) is removed from the faunal list, and Agriotes pubescens Melsheimer reinstated as a member of the New Brunswick fauna, bringing the total number of species known from the province to 122
Summary
The Elateridae (click beetles) is a species-rich family of beetles with about 965 named species in North America (Johnson 2002) and 369 species and subspecies from Canada and Alaska (Bousquet 1991). Little is known about the biology of most species Copyright Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. The Elateridae of the Maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) was reviewed by Majka and Johnson (2008). They provided a detailed historical overview the collection of the Elateridae and other families of beetles in the Maritime provinces and a taxonomic review of the genus Ctenicera, which was in need of taxonomic review and generic re-assignment. We newly report 22 elaterid species from New Brunswick
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