New Curculionoidea records from New Brunswick, Canada with an addition to the fauna of Nova Scotia

Abstract

This paper presents 27 new records of Curculionoidea for the province of New Brunswick, Canada, including three species new to Canada, and 12 adventive species, as follows: Eusphryrus walshii LeConte, Choragus harrisii LeConte (newly recorded for Canada), Choragus zimmermanni LeConte (newly recorded for Canada) (Anthribidae); Cimberis pallipennis (Blatchley) (Nemonychidae); Nanophyes marmoratus marmoratus (Goeze) (Brentidae); Procas lecontei Bedel (Brachyceridae); Anthonomus pusillus LeConte (newly recorded for Canada), Anthonomus (Cnemocyllus) pictus Blatchley, Archarius salicivorus (Paykull), Dorytomus hirtus LeConte, Ellescus bipunctatus (Linnaeus), Mecinus janthinus (Germar), Myrmex chevrolatii (Horn), Madarellus undulatus (Say), Microplontus campestris (Gyllenhal), Pelenomus waltoni (Boheman), Rhinoncus bruchoides (Herbst), Rhinoncus perpendicularis (Reich), Cossonus impressifrons Boheman, Cossonus pacificus Van Dyke, Rhyncolus knowltoni (Thatcher), Eubulus bisignatus (Say), Polydrusus cervinus (Linnaeus), Magdalis piceae Buchanan, Procryphalus mucronatus (LeConte), Ips grandicollis (Eichhoff), and Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford). Recent name changes in the genus Rhinoncus are applied to species known from New Brunswick. In addition, Orchestes alni (Linnaeus) is newly recorded from Nova Scotia.

A review of Ellescus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in North America: new species and synonyms revealed through integrative taxonomy

“…This species has been collected on Populus tremuloides (Michaux) and Salix bebbiana Sargent in North America, and in Europe from S. capraea Linnaeus, S. viminalis Linnaeus, S. cinerea Linnaeus, and S. aurita Linnaeus (Hoffmann 1954). Specimens of E. bipunctatus have also been collected in Lindgren funnel traps set in the canopy of P. grandidentata Michaux in New Brunswick (Webster et al 2016) and in fermenting bait traps (beer/wine and sugars) in Russia (Ruchin et al 2021).…”

New records of Curculionoidea from Newfoundland and Labrador, with the first records of Orthochaetes setiger ([Beck]) (Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Styphlini) for North America

“…The earliest records from North America are from 1979 in Delaware and Maryland ( Hoebeke and Whitehead 1980 ). In Canada, it is known from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia ( Bousquet et al 2013 ; Webster et al 2016 ). Hosts include species of Polygonum , Oenanthe ( Apiaceae ), and Chaerophyllum ( Apiaceae ) ( Hoebeke and Whitehead 1980 ).…”

“…The Curculionidae comprise the largest beetle family in Canada with 839 recorded species ( Bousquet et al 2013 ; Webster et al 2016 ; de Tonnancour et al 2017 ; Pentinsaari et al 2019; Franklin et al 2021 ; Thurston et al 2022 ). Together the Curculionidae and the related families Anthribidae (22 spp.…”

The Coleoptera of the Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada: 295 new records from Lindgren funnel traps and a checklist to species

“…Green Lindgren traps are more effective than black traps for collecting certain genera of jewel beetles, e.g., Agrilus spp., especially when placed in the mid-upper canopy of trees ( Rassati et al 2019 ). When baited with various combinations of lures, these traps have been very effective at providing new species records and species new to science in the Maritime Provinces ( Anderson and Klimaszewski 2012 ; Lopes-Andrade et al 2016 ; Webster et al 2016b , 2020 , 2022 ) and Maine ( DiGirolomo et al 2021 ). In 2019, we also used one or two flight intercept panel traps (Alpha-Scents Inc., Canby, OR) customized by substituting white Coroplast panels (Coroplast, Vanceburg, KY) for the black panels.…”

“…Since the publication of the Bousquet et al (2013) checklist, 42 species have been added to the faunal list of PE in publications by Alarie (2016) , Pentinsaari et al (2019) , Hammond and Chambers (2020) , Webster et al (2020 , 2022 ) bringing the total known from the province to 941. However, many additional Coleoptera species have also been recorded in NB and NS ( Webster 2016 ; Webster et al 2016a , b , c , f , 2020 , 2022 ; Hammond and Chambers 2020 ) during this same period, widening the gap even further. Currently, there are 3,152 and 2,338 species known from NB and NS , respectively.…”