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Glischrochilus quadrisignatus

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
  • 3. Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, Sacramento, United States of America

Description

Glischrochilus quadrisignatus (Say, 1835)

Albert Co.: Harvey Bank, 45.73°N 64.68°W, 25.IX.2005, D.S. Christie, on apples, (1, CGMC); Carleton Co.: Belleville, Meduxnekeeg Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1925°N, 67.6825°W, 19.IV.2005, R.P. Webster, hardwood forest, leaf litter, sifting, (1, RPW); Gloucester Co.: Beresford, 12.VIII.1980, C.A. Boudreau, (1, UMNB); Madawaska Co.: Rivière-Verte, 24.VII.1979, G. Grondin, (1, UMNB); Saint John Co.: Saint John, 19.V.1900 -07, 23.V.1900 -07, W. McIntosh, (2, NBM); Sunbury Co.: 7.5 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6861°N, 66.7719°W, 9.V.2007, Mixed forest, in litter at base of cut white birch oozing sap, (1, RWC); Westmorland Co.: Moncton, 17.IX.1994, P. Turgeon, (1, UMNB); York Co.: Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 3.V.2004, 9.V.2004, 16.X.2004, 17.IV.2005, 29.VIII.2007, R.P. Webster, mixed forest in compost, (6, RWC); Douglas, Keswick R. at Rt. 105, 45.9943°N, 66.8337°W, 14.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, silver maple forest, under debris, (1, RWC).

Glischrochilus quadrisignatus has been found in Canada from British Columbia east to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland (McNamara 1991; Majka and Cline 2006), and in the United States from Maine south to Florida and west through Kansas to Utah and Wyoming (Parsons 1943; Chandler 2001). The species is abundant throughout much of the Maritime Provinces (Majka and Cline 2006) and is attracted to decaying fruit, vegetables, and the odor of anything sweet (Downie and Arnett 1996). Price and Young (2006) found it associated with rotting fruit, corn, dung, carrion, wounded trees, a polypore fungus, and under the bark of black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh., Rosaceae).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald & Cline, Andrew, 2008, New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada, pp. 337-356 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 352, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.23, http://zenodo.org/record/576398

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  • McNamara J (1991) Family Nitidulidae: sap beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Research Branch Publication 1861 / E.: 214 - 217.
  • Majka CG, Cline AR (2006) Th e Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Th e Canadian Entomologist 138: 314 - 332.
  • Parsons CT (1943) A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 121 - 278.
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  • Price MB, Young DK (2006) An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kataretidae). Insecta Mundi 20 (1 - 2): 68 - 84.